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Word: faults (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should have been ours had the nine played the game that it had given us ample reason to expect that it would. There was a noticeable lack of team play and the nine as a whole batted poorly. We certainly have every reason to expect better coaching; to this fault, in a great measure, can our defeat be attributed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/31/1889 | See Source »

...lack of support, with the conviction that the sport of lacrosse could not be maintained here in future. The men worked hard to beat Princeton, but failed, and took the failure in a manly way. No agreement with Princeton has been cancelled, nothing done with which she could find fault. In face of her success and the unfortunate financial situation of our team, which should only call forth sympathy, such sentiments as the above are very much out of place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/28/1889 | See Source »

...college takes no interest in lacrosse and a team that it feels no interest in it will not support. The fault is not in the team, but in the fact that there is no room for lacrosse; we have too many other and more interesting branches of athletics. Men do not care for lacrosse with all the other more popular sports. As long as a team cannot get the hearty support of the college its reason for existence is gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/23/1889 | See Source »

...last supper. When Christ says, "Whither I go ye know, and the way ye know," he interrupts saying, "We know not whither thou goest, and how can we know the way?" Here we have a perfect illustration of the agnostic spirit of this age, a spirit the fault of which is that it is of the intellect rather than of the heart. There is a lack of faith. And so in the last scene in which Thomas appears, the one of the text, there is a lack of faith in all things which the testimony of the senses does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Chapel Service. | 4/29/1889 | See Source »

...such predictions bear. little weight no matter how they may be made. The history of track athletics in the past has shown scarcely an instance of correct predictions and yet a brief statement made by the Yale News may be of considerable interest to Harvard men. The notable fault of this resume is the assurance with which some of the most doubtful events are awarded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mott Haven Games. | 4/24/1889 | See Source »

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