Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Really, it is hard to find fault with any part. Careful examination reveals one incorrect title and two or three photographs which did not come through the engraving process with complete success. These defects are mentioned to show that the reviewer is impartial, and with the hope that the sincerity of his praise will be undoubted...
...plan remedies the latter fault by reapportioning the required C's more equally--three C's for each of the first three years, and the remaining two and one-half for the Senior year. At the same time, the higher Freshman standard will put new men to a severer test in quality though not in quantity, so that they will be obliged to put forth their best efforts at once, and be keyed up to better work when they become Sophomores...
...conceivable that more than five seniors not already members of Phi Beta Kappa will receive degrees with special distinction. It seems a pity that an arbitrary limit should admit some and exclude others whose records show them to be equally deserving. A motion now pending would eliminate that fault. These are small matters, but everything that strengthens the University's confidence in the justice of the chapter's election system is a gain for the value...
...from the honor, are worth working for, and are not an impossibility for many men who now maintain a C average without difficulty. The list is a deserved reward for the student who has ambition enough to aim above the mere passing mark. But that very fact suggests one fault in the system. At present the University has set C as a "good-enough" mark; and any man, it would seem, who does better than "good-enough" should have some special consideration. The Dean's List is the natural reward: yet it does not reward all such men, but only...
Perhaps the most surprising note in these suggestions is the recurrence of one particular complaint the Tutoring Schools. Among a host of miscellaneous ideas, the repeated condemnation of those institutions stands out as one those institutions stands out as one fault on which most of the Senior were agreed. And the objections were not raised merely by onlookers who were jealous at seeing others get better marks with less effort, nor by men who regard these schools as inconsistent with the best college ethics; they seemed in many cases to come from men who had tried and had been disillusioned...