Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...here could be abolished also. Is there not much greater glory in the hard-earned victory of one well-trained team over another, than the overwhelming triumph of a team which has gained perfection in secrecy and lulled her adversary into over-confidence? We are not free from fault ourselves, - let us try to remove the mote from our own eye, and then congratulate our New Haven rival in extracting the weighty beam from hers...
...have examined quite a large number of these critiques, and almost without exception they confound criticism with fault-finding, and, in many cases, go almost to the extent of abuse. The average man seems to think he is going to "get even" with the world at large and his instructors in particular - presumably for inappreciation of his own efforts in the past - by vigorous "sitting on" the work of some known or unknown classmate. Perhaps this large amount of ill nature, and what might be called literary dis-curtesy, has given rise to doubts in our instructors' minds...
...exchange columns in school and college journals to-day are readable. Editors doubtless find them interesting, at times exciting, but general readers almost never find them so. Here, then, is a real fault, - a fault that has but one cure. Exchange editors should talk not in petty small-talk, as so many of them do, but in a way that will involve some generality, some interest to their readers as well as to themselves. The small-talk should more properly be conducted by private correspondence. But whatever is done, extravagance should be avoided...
...many students at least, in regard to the use of the gymnasium for the Cambridge Assemblies. If the closing of the gymnasium for half a day last Saturday, or the inconvenience of having apparatus misplaced for a day or two this week, were the only objection, I suppose little fault would be found; but when, for the benefit of Cambridge people, or of a part of the faculty, the gymnasium is, to a certain extent, rendered unfit for exercise and even dangerous to those who practice there, I think we may fairly complain. Last Saturday the floor of the main...
...fault in our college papers is the fault of youth. We are too ambitious; we try to do too much. A few here may be profound; but the most of us are not. Yet all may strive for sincerity. Lion skins are proverbially poor garments...