Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results of these investigations encourage the belief that there are now available materials for glazing our windows which do not possess the fault of window glass in excluding the health-giving rays of sunlight. A comparatively small amount of exposure to sunlight, even during the winter months, at the latitude of Boston has a decidedly beneficial effect...
George Ade, perhaps by no fault of his own, has not yet become a member of the Harvard faculty. Among his many golden truths is the often quoted aphorism that "they all look good when they're far away." To nothing in Cambridge does this apply more forcefully than to the Lampoon. In its own office, and among all Harvard men everywhere, is a tradition that once upon a time the Lampoon was a perfectly side-splitting paper...
...argument, and she writes with the vivacity and warmth of Irish blood reared "down South." None knows better than she the tragedy of good taste ruined by poor execution. She has labored over her execution until it is deft and capable except for the first-novelist's last fault, propping the characters up and making them expound the argument sometimes...
Going ahead logically to point out a remedy for each fault enumerated, Burrus makes the following suggestions as steps to cure the specific evils: (1) Replace Freshman and Sophomore gymnasium with two years of compulsory sports. (2) Limit intercollegiate competition to Juniors and Seniors or to Sophomores and Juniors. (3) Limit each sport to its season. (4) Limit daily practice for each sport. (5) Limit each student to participation in one intercollegiate sport, or prohibition of participation in successive sports. (6) Give students and faculty greater control of athletics...
This result reveals a weak spot in a judicial system which as a whole is it worthy of confidence and pride. We dare not rest until this vital fault is corrected...