Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regard to the many communications which we have received on the subject of lighting the library, we would say that it has annually been our custom to add our voice to the general hue and cry in this matter. It has always seemed to us the one great fault in the otherwise excellent management of the college library that a place which was avowedly built for the use of the students should be closed to them at the hour when the majority of men are in the mood for work. As our correspondent of to-day truly remarks, the afternoon...
...that, had it not been for the referee's decision in ruling off Cowan for foul tackling in Saturday's game, the orange and black would undoubtedly have won the day. These gentlemen seem to have forgotten that one of our men was ruled off for precisely the same fault. If foot-ball players cannot obey the rules set down by the Inter-collegiate Foot-Ball Association, those rules provide that such players shall be ruled off the field. It is all very well for these gentlement to claim that the foul tackle was an accident, or did not happen...
Voice after voice in damnable antiphone suggests the remissness of the faculty in this thing or that or the other. And ourselves? Oh, we undergraduates have enough to do in finding fault...
Sears, full-back, has the great fault of not falling on the ball. Is inclined to fumble, but when he gets the ball runs hard and well...
...London. Let every man of brains and energy feel it his duty to oppose in every possible way this growing lethargy and indifference and, worse than all, snobbishness. What is a man does assert himself too forcibly or is a trifle "fresh?" It is not a vital fault. Why suppress him? It is not always the blase or the brainless however that bray: "What an ass!" Many a man while secretly admiring independence and push, joins in with the popular chorus against the offender. Few undergraduates have any idea how childish and inane this spirit of repression appears...