Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...only two, in the college sense of the word. The Advocate is the truest literary production of college journalism in our exchange basket. A little heavy for a b1-weekly, perhaps, but when it is considered that Harvard is apparently without a literary monthly, this is a fault in the right direction. All departments are good, but the poetical would perhaps be bettee did not F. D. S. make it a waste paper basket for the 'Century.' The Lampoon, the only true illustrated paper in the college world, compares most favorably with professional productions of the same nature. The fact...
...present in our college papers there is a strong tendency toward story-writing. The tendency is a good one; for a well told story is interesting, while a poor one is, perhaps, not as bad as some other poor things. Yet too many of the college stories have the fault of open insincerity. A man tries to write of what he cannot so vividly imagine as to make it a part of his own mental experience. His situations are forced, and the whole affair is wretched, - a result of the author's going beyond himself, to paint what...
...Porter, Butler, Bradlee and Wood, ex-captain of the '88 crew. It is quite likely that one or more of these men will take seats in the boat. '88 has shown up some very good men, and if they fail in getting on the 'Varsity, it will be no fault of their's, but superior oarsmanship in others. The freshmen also have their representative. Pfeiffer, '89, is a large strong man and bids fair to become a good oarsman. The men are still at work on the water and will row there as long as the Charles remains free from...
...another page we print a communication from a graduate who sees fit to criticise the ground taken by our correspondent who, in one of our issues of last week, took occasion to find fault with the methods pursued by some of the reporters of the Boston dailies in their accounts of recent accidents at Harvard. We think that this letter requires no comment, other than the remarks that the reports published in the Boston press were dressed in most glaring colors and had but a thin thread of truth running through them. We must again make a distinction between...
Students are proverbial grumblers. They may be rated dull by their companions, or they may startle the college world by their brilliancy, but all have a recognized ability to find fault. It is not this spirit of mere growling, however, that is at the root of the present dissatisfaction with our marking system. There are evils in that department that justify a more earnest and rational remonstrance than that of the college grumbler...