Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...place in the United States where one is actually aware of the presence of ungenerosity, ill-will and malice." Commented Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, who entertained Count Keyserling last year in Chicago: "If he disliked Chicago . . . I think the fault must have been with him." Commented another Chicago Keyserling hostess: "I rather think he wrote what he wrote ... to attract attention...
...presence, the "I" of the story takes Albertine to live with him in his house. There he discovers that "love ... is what we feel for a person whose actions seem rather to arouse our jealousy." If Albertine arouses her "darling Marcel's" jealousy, it is through small fault of her own, for she most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening. By ingenious analyses he often comes very close to truth about her daily doings. One afternoon she goes to the Trocadero Theatre to see a certain Lea perform. Remembering...
Criticism of U. S. teachers came last week from Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, president of Union Theological Seminary, addressing the annual convocation of summer students at Columbia University. Said Dr. Coffin: ". . . Brachiopod teachers are at fault. Brachiopods are mollusk-like creatures, the most ancient inhabitants of this planet, which have always reproduced their own species, but never had any part in the evolution of other living creatures. . . . There are brachiopod teachers who transmit their own minds but do not stimulate students to advance human knowledge...
...Stuyvesant High School, where Dr. Henry E. Fritz conducts special Saturday drawing classes and arranges an annual Metropolitan exhibit for the 30 most talented children (15 boys, 15 girls). "You needn't congratulate yourselves on your talent," Dr. Fritz tells his protégés. "It isn't any fault of yours." Ronald Joseph has stayed with the Fritz class for six years. He was the first to be given a special section in the Metropolitan. So far his success has not spoiled him. He says: "I have a fifty-fifty chance of doing something good...
...concentrating in Biology, for example, is dragged down on one side by a staggering amount of laboratory work, on the other side by a reading period in which no respite from laboratory is allowed, and further by tutorial work and divisionals. With the latter two little fault can be found, for the divisional examinations in Biology are being given for the first time this year, and the tutorial system is as effective as it can ever be until a replacement of "doctor's office" conferences by direct individual laboratory contact can be effected...