Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 the the columns of the 'Yale News' and the 'Cornell Sun' to the men in those colleges...
...fault is not with journalism and in the larger sense the blame cannot be laid at Washington's door. In Washington an intimate knowledge of government and its many-sided problems can surely be acquired, but--sad to relate--it is not an intimate knowledge that gets most men elected to public office...
...strict proportion should be as valuable as the first and which in theory should be even more so, is only a repetition of the beginning, then it is unnecessary and undosirable. The probabilities are, however, that the present length of the course is the proper one, but the fault lies in inefficient arrangement of material. Whatever is the cause, Mr. Baker's and Mr. Ziegler's endowments are certainly a means to correction. The standard of excellence which Mr. Baker asked be maintained allows no room for periods of turgidity...
...seen that particular reasons, among them the location of the Union itself and the isolated position of the rooms used for club tables, were as much to be blamed as actual absence of need. Next the device of circulating a petition was tried and then dropped. But the fault here, similarly, was quite obviously in the manner of circulating the petition rather than in any more significant cause. It will be remembered, among other things, that Freshmen alone were approached...
...practice and the store may lose on the deal, but the loss is compensated by keeping the others satisfied." Because two years ago 12% of gross volume of department store sales was returned by dissatisfied customers, the University of Pittsburgh is conducting research to learn just who is at fault-customer or merchant. Data so far accumulated indicates that one is wrong as often as the other...