Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...believed to be less critical towards the end of the speaking than at the beginning. The change, however, is not so unfair as it may seem. The present Junior class will have their turn at last place next year; no one is placed under a disadvantage, the only fault being that this advantage, if it be one, will have been given twice to the present Senior class. But it may be doubted whether this last place is any great advantage; fifty-three per cent of the Juniors who spoke at the preliminary trial are to speak at the final contest...
...ever a lack of patience or tact is to be lamented, it is certainly in the case of a college instructor, and more so in the case of a college faculty. It is so hard for young men to think themselves into the position of older people, that fault-finding and even lack of charity to instructors must be expected from them. But older people have once been young themselves, and for them to punish with such severity a fault that is more a hopeful than a bad sign in a student, is certainly unwise, if not criminal...
...only does this deprive men of a representation in class votes, but it offers a prize to particular rings and all cut-and-dried projects. I do not wish to find fault; but I am confident that if the officers knew how wide-spread is the feeling against this habit, they would endeavor to remedy the matter, by posting notices, as should be done, at least one day before the time of meeting...
...opinion, preferable to the former. Two of them were very pretty; another beautifully ugly, like a pug dog; and the rest were not remarkable in any way. There was one divorced lady, who inspired much awe among the younger ones. From appearances, I should judge that it was her fault...
...seems to me, is this: students come to college with a worse fit in mathematics, as a general thing, than any other subject, and the struggles against conditions in the Freshman year, in which too much mathematics is crowded, creates no sympathy for cosines and asymptotes. The fault, therefore, is primarily in the fitting schools. Having had the same "misfortune" as the writer in the Echo, I am perfectly free to say, for mathematics is not my forte, that J. C., '81, appears to me as ridiculous in his new position as he was, according to his own statement...