Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gillette, being a first-rate business manager himself, proposes a remedy. The basic fault, he finds, with the present system is competition. It makes for endless duplication. The art of selling, including advertising, which occupies many people today is a clear waste which gets the consumer nothing. He calculates that in the U. S. there are 3,552,952 people who are paid, fed, clothed, solely for the purpose of persuading people that one product is bet ter than another. Let's abolish them, he says, or rather put them to producing something...
...Economics; I must have Marvell and Beddoes for my Divisionals." In my our case, I had had when I graduated twenty courses, of which twelve had been in English, and at least two in closely related fields-not the broadest of possible educations. That may have been my own fault; but, like the rest, I wanted my degree, and was taking no chances. The problem of the Bible reading which you mentioned is another good case in point. If, as you say, the examintaion this year necesaiated the taking of a Bible course, then the examination has defeated...
...reasons for our failure are two. Perhaps the greatest fault is in the inactivity of the graduates in interesting boys in Harvard. I do not mean by that, Proselyting, but merely telling to them the merits of the college, and what they will gain by coming here. We do not want athletic parasites, but we want more men rooting for Harvard. We have bent over backwards to avoid proselyting, but we can at least stir up interest...
...major sport teams were then called on to give accounts of the activities of their teams. In commenting on the recent defeat of the first crew by the Sophomore and third University eights, Captain Henry said he wanted to emphasize the fact that it was in no way the fault of the coaching they had received. "The crew is in good condition physically," he said, "and its only alibi lies in the fact that it has not yet mastered its new stroke. In the few weeks left before the race with Yale, a great deal may happen. Our early season...
Coach Stewart will probably give Puffer another chance on the mound for the seconds. The latter's main fault against Andover was in his fielding. His pitching against the schoolboy's sluggers was above reproach, and Coach Stewart is confident that practice will improve his fielding...