Word: faults
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University forwards missed several fine chances to score in this manner. A Crimson man would pass beautifully from in back of the cage or from the side, only to have a Westminster skater get the puck instead of one of the other two University attackers. It was this fault that Coach Claflin attempted to obviate yesterday by having the entire forward line rush in close to the goal as soon as the pass was made...
...chief fault of Harvard education is that it is not critical enough of itself. To assume perfection is to deny the possibility of growth. Stagnation can be avoided only by a willingness to innovate. There is a well-defined feeling among a good many faculty members and students that the next steps which should be taken at Harvard are modification of the lecture and examination systems and further development of the tutorial system. The chief obstacles to these reforms are opposition among the alumni and lack of financial resources...
...earth's crust can fairly be assumed to have been similar to that at the time of the San Francisco shock, in which the rocks at an unknown depth slipped horizontally past each other about 16 feet on a verticle plane. This formation, technically known as a 'fault', extends along the coast, nearly parallel to it, and stretches for a great distance on the ocean's bottom...
...with the queer idea, not of getting there as much as they can, but, by the selection of easy courses, of getting as little as is compatible with graduation. There are exceptions, indeed; but they are not very popular and they acquire no fame. That may be partly the fault of the newspapers, which pay so much more attention to football stars than to the winners of scholastic honors, but if superiority in learning made a man famous in college it would do so out of it as well...
...drill. It is because in a regular contest all three forwards so seldom go down the ice together that Coach Winsor is spending more time on "Two-man" team-work. It was lack of this in the Dalhousie contest that was the Crimson sextet's chief fault...