Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...blame for this state of things? Surely not the editors, for a few men cannot hear every rumor that may be floating about the college, nor can they give the time to run about picking up facts here and there, as newspaper reporters do. The fault is to be charged to the entire body of our students, and it is only owing to indifference on their part that our local column is less interesting to the students of Harvard, than are the columns of the Yale News and Cornell Sun to the men in those colleges. It would...
EDITIORS HERALD-CRIMSON.-I saw in your paper this morning an editorial about cold examination halls in Massachusetts. An hour or two later I was working at an examination in Sever 37. I am sorry to say that much the same fault might be found with that room as with Massachusetts. We shivered a large part of the morning because one of the windows perched near the roof could not be closed by any means. Sever 37 is never noted as being a very warm place to sit but this morning it was terrible. It does seem...
...students, is to do the work. At a recitation the professor, who, by the way, always stands, reads or explains the next lesson, and at the following recitation the students review it. If, at the close of a term, the students are found deficient in some study the fault is considered the professor's, not their's, and yet the professors are on the best of terms with the students whom they treat as gentlemen and equals. It is a very common occurrence for a student to invite a professor to lunch with a few of his friends...
...member of a New York Amateur club of good standing last season. Such being the case, it is impossible that he should ever have received money for services on the ball field. Therefore, in the case of Mr. Tyng we think that the N. Y. Times is seriously at fault...
...method of rowing. Much interest and enthusiasm is shown by the men. Several of them during the Christmas recess visited Philadelphia, the home of Captain Cook, trying hard, under his personal instruction, to forget the disastrous stroke used last year. Part of the plan to overcome the old fault has been to make the crews row on stationary seats to rid them of the overlong slides necessary before this change to the '73 stroke. These stationary seats have now given place to short slides and long heavy oars. Two or three times each week the crew met at the boathouse...