Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...able Librarian, will be on the whole a more efficient and satisfactory publication. While, therefore, on some grounds the discontinuance of the Register calls for regret, we must acquiesce in the wisdom of the publisher's decision. It has filled its place; and it is not the fault of Mr. King if the enterprise has not proved a success. But it has never been an undergraduate college paper, in the customary sense of the word, nor an official publication, by any manner of means; and, therefore, we have always deprecated its claims as a representative of Harvard or of Harvard...
...believe that some more definite rules must be placed in the hands of the contestants in our athletic meetings. Or, if the fault is not in the definiteness of the rules, then a thorough acquaintance with those already issued by the Association should be the condition of entry. Last Saturday both contestants and spectators acted in a way which somewhat marred the enjoyment of the meeting. Most of this unpleasantness might, we believe, have been avoided by a better knowledge, on the part of all present, of what was and what was not fair. Above all, such trouble as this...
...find fault with Mrs. Burnett for giving us such a character as Miss Ffrench; on the contrary, she deserves congratulation for the ingenuity evinced in its creation. It is, for the most part, consistent; she has breathed into the machinery a semblance of life, as I have indicated. In fact, Miss Ffrench stands out in literature a masterpiece of invention, - a made woman. Our only ground for complaint is that Mrs. Burnett would have us consider that character real. From beginning to end, we are striving to see, to get hold of her; but before we finish the story...
...clad. Then I explained. She laughed in the most astonishing way, and confessed that she had never yet been afflicted by the deadly disease which her husband had imputed to her. And then I knew that Alfred had been guilty of the basest prevarication. I almost wept over his fault; my confidence in human...
...rapidly growing custom of lauding immoderately our victorious teams, and trying to find excuses for them when defeated, instead of encouraging them more nearly to perfect themselves, in the first instance; and in the second, of striving to discover and rectify the causes of their non-success. A fault, to be corrected, must be known; and if we make a point of sparing the feelings of our athletic representatives by charitably blinding ourselves to their obvious failings, so long must we expect to see those failings remain prevalent. A team may do hard and conscientious work all through the winter...