Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When there is so much to commend, it is perhaps captious to find anything to criticize. But come complaints there have been which as such deserve attention even if the grounds on which they are based are invalid. Some undergraduates have found fault with the arrangement by which Graduate School one-seat applicants have been seated next to the cheering section and in a better location than the majority of undergraduates. Such an objection is perfectly natural on the part of undergraduates who feel that the center of the field should be reserved for those who are naturally most interested...
...defeat--unneccessary because every Harvard man knows it and feels it. But for that very reason it requires the saying. Every man on the eleven was determined to accept nothing but victory when he went on the field on Saturday. Every man gave his utmost. It is no fault of his that that was not enough...
Blame for accidents can be laid upon a number of shoulders. In the first place, the miner himself is often responsible for disaster. When a man with a lighted lamp in his cap fills paper cartridges with black powder, it is obviously his own fault if he does not remove his lamp to a safe distance. Even more gruesome is the sight of a miner tamping a highly explosive dynamite cap with his teeth. The foreman is to blame if he permits anyone to work in rooms with insufficient propping or to ride on trips of cars meant only...
...Meistersinger is Wagner's " human " opera. In The Ring he is accused of megalomania; in Tristan of hysteric; in Parsifal of religiosity. But in Die Meistersinger his only fault is length. And that perhaps is the fault of a restless and rapid age rather than of the master...
Last Wednesday Mr. Israel Zangwill, British novelist and playwright, set what is believed to be a new record in systematic fault-finding. With such startling rapidity were his points of criticism against the United States rattled off that Mr. Zangwill bids fair to equal famous football teams in being a point-a-minute machine...