Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...definite availability of the faculty the Cornell plan anticipates what has been the only flaw in the Reading Period. At Harvard the tutors, who might be expected to give significance in terms of divisionals and fields of concentration to the final harvesting of a half-year's study, cannot be consulted, while the section man, often as like to the tutor as the captain to the crew of the captain's gig, keeps precarious office hours...
...thriving in a smug over-convenient America, 1928 model. Lively audiences yawn, groan, escape him, but posterity, trapped by the author's undeniable virtuosity in the spoken word, will listen and believe that the mechanistic ass was typical of the age. And posterity may not detect this flaw: "typical" American butter-and-eggers idolized in Lindbergh all the heroism which their own ready-to-wear existence lacked, and would always prefer a Lindbergh to the "honest-to-God master genius" who invented the electric ice box. Author Lewis has concocted the synthetic Schmaltzian horror, only to flay...
...none of these cases is the danger without its remedy. To each of the problems, Mr. Mazur has his answer, simple, based on common sense, without a flaw in the logic that any business man could detect: but perhaps because if its very clarity not entirely to be trusted by the scholars in economics...
...nature of the Harvard curriculum has made such official sanction unnecessary to make this kind of study an institution. One may regret that the credit system, the greatest flaw in the American educational scheme, should taint the orthodox amateurism of the vagabonding student, but it may also be interpreted as a cheerful token of growth...
...have your marriage rigidly scrutinized in the hope of finding a technical flaw from the standpoint of Roman canon law-which is exceedingly technical-don't go to Paris or Reno, but to a lawyer close at hand. A fee, a little quiet litigation, and obedience to the Roman Catholic Church-how simple...