Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pennsylvania looms as the logical winner of the race for second crews. The Junior University eight has slumped of late, shortness in the water has been a vital fault. Penn's second crew beat the Yale seconds a week ago last Saturday...
...proved rather too educational to portray the real life of a whaler "The Sea Beast", adapted from Herman Melville's famous book, "Moby Dick", is truly an epic. From start to finish it is so accurate that not even the curators of the New Bedford Whaling Museum could find fault with it, and at the same time it possesses a story that holds the interest and plays upon the emotions...
...current "Century", writing under the title, "An Unfortunate Necessity", Gerald W. Johnson discards censorship and discovers a new method of attack. The fault of the newspapers is, he says, not in telling unpleasant news but in telling it unpleasantly. If the journalists were clever enough, his intimation is, they could tell questionable stories in a humorous vein which would alleviate the usual sultry effect or with scientific discernment which would allay popular and fallacious deductions. Yet he never once asks himself or his readers why newspaper men should want to draw the sting from crude news to protect a public...
...accepted for concentration so that the department is adapted to men of greatly differing tastes. In this connection it is pertinent to scotch the myth that is every man's inheritance from secondary school that American history is a sterile and desolate waste. The usual preparatory school graduate, no fault of his, has seen American history through glasses so darkly distorting that it is fair to say he has not seen...
Friendliness in these huge institutions is confined to very small units, indeed, through no fault of the students, perhaps, since the structure of the university life affords no daily meeting ground for the interchange of amenities. The discouragement of intimate association, such as all colleges used to foster among all students, is one of the serious short-comings of the prodigious educational plants. It seems that some artifice must be adopted to make their atmosphere less gelid, and the most natural recourse is to attempt, by some such arrangement as the Harvard committee favors, to bring back to the university...