Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evident on further thought, that such a proposal does not change the fundamental fault, intercollegiate victory is still the goal; the innovation would simply give a few more men a chance to share the laurels. That in itself is an advantage; but with keener competition for the teams, the over emphasis on sports would become even more pronounced. The solution when it finally comes, will need to go deeper than anything which affects merely the make-up of the "varsity" team. It must provide men with some incentive to play even without the slightest expectation of intercollegiate glory...
There is a new kind of literature abroad in the land, whose only obvious fault is that no one can understand if. Last year there appeared a gigantic volume entitled Ulysses, by James Joyce. To the uninitiated it appeared that Mr. Joyce had taken some half million assorted words- many such as are not ordinarily heard in reputable circles-shaken them up in a colossal hat, laid them end to end. To those in on the secret the result represented the greatest achievement of modern letters-a new idea in novels...
...extraordinary that this man committed another murder," said Mr. Manning. "It would have been very extraordinary if he had not. Would it not have been more practical to use different methods in such an institution? These conditions are not the fault of President Harding, or of the United States Senate, they are the fault of the American people...
...most heartily do I welcome the sane utterance of Dr. Steinmetz and rejoice that he has so adequately stated the truth. The only fault that I would fine with Dr. Steinmetz' utterance, indeed, is that perhaps he might have gone further still and pointed out the obvious truth that there are other "facts" than those which lie in the realm of the material. Faith, itself, is a fact, even though it can neither be weighed, felt, smelt, tasted, or experienced by any other sense perception. Love is another such fact. Penitence is another such fact. Hope is another such fact...
Paternalism is the prime fault that Europeans criticize in American universities. The administration has its finger in every student pie, as the foreigner sees it. The tendency has been for the authorities to make the path too well defined; the modern idea is to give the individual more and more freedom, to place the student more on his own responsibility, and to cut down the "you must" attitude. The "News", in one of its editorials favoring the adoption of the resolutions, takes the same position on compulsory chapel that is recognized hare. "The purpose of a church service...