Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...really afforded those advantages, would it have dwindled and passed? Undergraduates may be deaf to the call of the Muses, but they have a thirst unquenchable for college life and comradeship. Nowhere in America do the commons perform the function of "Hall" in an English college. The real fault with our system is that the commmons are not truly commons. Those who, in local opinion, constitute the socially elect dine in club or fraternity houses. At Harvard they number about one-third of each class, and the proportion is said to be increasing. What should be a common meeting ground...
...Usually the chief fault in a college graduate who turns to baseball as a profession, is that he treats it as an experience rather than a business and doesn't put his mind on his work. Baseball is like any profession in that it demands close study and attention if a player wants to succeed...
Every week or two some critic cries out in print that something is wrong with American universities. One fault finder blames commercial tendencies; another says too many are going to college; still another points to "Christo et Ecclesiae" upon the Harvard seal and says that Harvard and other universities turned their backs on "Veritas" when they ceased to emphasize the fundamentals of religion. Whatever the specific charge, there seems to be a general agreement that something is wrong...
...expense was spared in building Widener. The great vault of the Reading Room is gratifying to the artistic eye, and it helps materially to make the room healthful for study; yet despite these advantages the Widener atmosphere is none too pure. If the ventilating apparatus is at fault, if ought to be given immediate attention, and until its deficiencies are remedied the attendants might very well adopt the cruder method of periodically opening the windows...
...Queen by Doris Halman. Rita Nolan does well with the difficult role of Maria, though lacking somewhat in distinction. Able support is given by G. S. Curtis as the Dwarf, and by H. S. Smith as Enrique as well as by many others of the numerous company. The principal fault of the actors is in enunciation, and it is to be feared that many of the lines were lost by those at all far removed from the stage. As is to be expected in so large a cast, there are occasional actors who in spite of all disguise remain Harvard...