Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. He writes thrillingly of "The Unique Hold-Up of a Taximan's Pants." And never for a moment is he serious, even inadvertently. He sometimes fails also to be funny, but not for lack of trying. It is that straining for effect that is Mr. Sullivan's chief fault. We are led to feel that the author is trying very, very hard to make us laugh; and we are inclined to be annoyed that he should deem such excessive efforts necessary
...only possible fault in the book is the construction, for the whole action hangs on two incidents that one realizes, if one stops to analyze, and placed together for no good reason at all. But there is no reason why one should stop to analyze the book unless one has already read, as had the reviewer, a short story of Mr. Buchan's built around one of the incidents. This self-plagiarism Mr. Buchan acknowledges in a note in the front, but it seems rather a pity that he should have used old, and really unessential material, in the making...
Attacking a different problem, Woodrow Wilson once said, "these boys are bound together in all their social relationships but have no intellectual ties . . . the ties of fellowship, the ties of membership, the center of it all should be an intellectual thing." This is the fundamental fault in most intercollege relationships. They are fraternal in the emotional sense, or athletic or sentimental, but seldom based on the community of the mind. Here lies the importance of intersectional debating, the Student Federation, and other fundamentally intellectual relationships in the collegiate world...
...system of calling signals, so the huddle does not slow up the game. As for stalling, the referee is near enough to know what goes on in the huddle, and if he lets a team hold a town meeting in their huddle, it is his responsibility and no fault of the huddle system...
...chief fault of student discussion of these varied problems of social adjustment has been the want of some sort of a permanent organization which will act as a clearing house and give a greater continuity, clarity and force to student opinion. This want will be filed by the National Student Federation of America which meets at Anu Arbor in a fortnight to adopt a permanent constitution and extend its scope. Its projects will be discussed in detail later in this column, but its general topic for discussion. "The Student's Part in Education" sums up in one phrase the need...