Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schools") of music. Programme making is an art, of course, and requires more care and consideration than audiences realize; and even when a programme is well, drawn up, the foreplanned effect is usually lost or distorted by the introduction of a series of encores. This is peculiarly an American fault...
Neither the reactionaries nor the enemies of government interference can find cause for alarm in this resolution. It is merely the correction of a fault of long standing. Its effects are simple but important. By the mere change of date, the government is made more quickly responsive to the popular desire, and coordination between executive and legislative is considerably aided...
...hard scrimmage yesterday afternoon, stressing especially the attack and passing to the man under the basket. In Saturday's game with Worcester Academy, the men showed particular weakness in putting the ball in action after the tap-off, and yesterday's work included an effort to correct this fault...
...still popular, there must be a reason for it. If men still want to know that 57 lynchings were recorded during the year 1922, that the Herrin murderers are to be punished, and that two men were tortured in the Mer Rouge outrage, it must be the fault of "life", and not primarily of literature. One optimistic critic offers the suggestion that it is not even a "fault" really. Men read of murders because their own daily life is so far away from them. And from a second point of view, the publicity of such things helps to make...
...locust, at regular intervals. History reports it appeared before as a hybrid insect, related to the late frivolous sheet, "The Harvard Magazine", or the "Mag". There are other instances with which it is needless to irk the student (or if there are not, the art of pseudology is at fault...