Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich, sombre voice of Rosa Ponselle; because Giovanni Martinelli was the popular tenor who loved her; because Ezio Pinza was the blind king and believed it; because, by reason of its beauty and its simplicity, L'Amore del Tre Re pleases the tutored and untutored, there was small fault found anywhere with the opening performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, last week...
During the last few years the one fault of Harvard teams has been that they have not won victories. After a brief dawn of hope this year a Harvard team has again seen victory snatched from its grasp. Almost everything else this Harvard team has strength, speed, and scrappiness but victory it, as yet has not and, as every one knows, victory is the greatest of all the virtues any team can have...
However, and I am here expressing the opinion of all the students with whom I have spoken regarding the matter, the fault lies wholly with the miserable cheer leading there has been thus far this season...
...sailors are comrades, and I want to be friends with everyone. When a boy is called to war, it is his highest duty to answer his country's call. It is not his fault that he must have enemies. But when the war stops, we must become friends. Our life is too short to waste in holding a grudge against anyone. Sailors, who have faced a hurricane together, know what true comradeship is worth...
...blame in what is clearly a case of divided inadvertencies has little point, particularly in this admittedly extraordinary instance. Undergraduates find little fault with the conduct of examinations at Harvard in such matters of principle as the question of the honor system. Certain of its mechanics, however, are rather less than satisfactory. There is something about the proctor who giggles over the examination paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast...