Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college, it goes without saying, can graft an education onto an unwilling student. The institution opens its doors as a place in which knowledge can be acquired. The acquisition, however, is dependent on the active cooperation of the candidate for a degree. Where such cooperation is not shown, the fault lies not with the college but with the student and his previous training. Although every college graduates a certain number of men who have only technically qualified for a degree, on the other hand it develops some men of the highest intellectual ability, who more than justify the claim that...
...Eastern Universities are being eclipsed by our Western Universities. Their fault has been that they have gathered a group of preparatory school feeders, which send them the same type of man year after year...
...litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely outmoded long before he was an old man in Aldworth. Such archaisms as "dight," "say him nay," "fain," such clicheés as "balmy breezes," "surly portals" are all shoddy stuff. They are no easier to sing than good English. Yet the fault was not Translator Meltzer's, for the general run of librettos are concocted out of just such snips, snails, puppydogs' tails of poetry...
...fearful that Harvard's broad tradition of scholarship and culture is being sacrificed to the more specialized development of the tutorial system and of certain graduate schools. It is admittedly difficult to strike a satisfactory balance between athletics and scholarship in a college: certainly no just observer can find fault with President Lowell for his present course...
...advertisement in your paper of Feb. 23, an advertisement of The Forum magazine, displaying an article, Civilization, by Ralph Adams Cram, and a , picture of the New York Cathedral, St. John "-the Divine"- with the statement that the Cathedral was designed by Cram. If my memory is not at fault, the original architect was John La Farge, a considerable part of whose plan was embodied in stone. One regrets that a page of TIME should carry what is at least unfair, even if not inaccurate. Doubtless you understand that I do not wish to detract from the fame...