Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief fault of the play is the ending, which leaves one with the unsatisfied feeling of something yet to come; but this is a small point compared with the many splendid dramatic qualities that it possesses...
...leadership: Co-educational places offer women less chance for leadership. A man is usually " president" and a woman "vice president " of the co-educational organization. But, here again, co-education is not at fault; it is very like the big world, that...
...demands for greater freedom in cutting. Plainly the educational world is moving away from the idea of education by compulsion and toward the idea of education by desire. And if once the premise as to the existence of such a desire is granted, it is hard to find any fault with the tendency...
...only possible excuse for dragging it, the "logic of the larger lines", to be aliterative, Mr. Monteux had. Even so it did not wholly satisfy. It was in the symphony, too, that the orchestra shone least; a certain lack of brilliance, which is Mr. Monteux's major fault with the classics,--that lack which must necessarily accompany his extreme refinement, was overbalanced by the wood and brass...
...that this condition is the students' fault for not driving better bargains is not very helpful. The absorbing thought of the last week of college is to get out of Cambridge just as quickly as possible; next fall seems far off, and the desire to make a reasonable moving contract is very faint. Perhaps any action of the College would border on paternalism, but considering the general confusion and excitment during the last few weeks and the necessity for prompt and untroubled concentration in the fall, such action is certainly warranted...