Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feared that the erection of a fence for the purpose of increasing the gate receipts will smack of professionalism. Still another class look at the question from an aesthetic point of view, and in the eyes of these the unsightly appearance of the fence is its chief fault. It is believed, also, that the erection of a fence will create opposition to the athletic interests of the college in the minds of those whose good will would be of value...
Another glaring fault is seen in the department of English. While the elective courses in Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Beowulf are conducted in the most unexceptionable manner, the required work of the department (the only work required after freshmen year) is notoriously a failure. The instruction in rhetoric is ridiculous and imbecile, while the so-called "instruction" in forensics consists in handing in a few sheets of paper every two months and in being marked upon the same, not a word of advice or criticism ever being given. In themes, however, the written exercise is returned with some cabalistic pencil marks...
...Tewksbury almshouse investigation yesterday, Dr. Tucker of Australia, a medical expert, testified that the sanitary arrangements were remarkably good. The only fault was the male attendants for females, and the ignorance of Dr. Lothrop...
...bottom premise of all this reasoning that is at fault. College athletic sport as stimulated and maintained by inter-collegiate contests is not confined to a few; and such sport so sustained brings "compensating advantages" for all the real evils incurred, if not for all the imaginary ones...
...correspondent comes forward with a "correction," in which he claims that "many candidates for honors are excused from a certain share of the year's work." If this is the case we can only state again that this is more the fault of individual instructors than of the system. Any such privileges are entirely contrary to the spirit of the regulations in regard to the substitution of theses for forensics, and if they are granted it is upon the personal responsibility of the instructor and in spite of the expressed intention of the faculty...