Word: flaws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solution for the election problem offered in this morning's communication and in the editorial column, is certainly the best suggestion yet made. It has one obvious flaw, however: the suggestion that each member of the class shall vote for only one name on the ballot. Under this arrangement, there might conceivably be two or three men equally popular with a large part of the class; but through the limited vote, only one of them might be elected. This one man might receive 250 votes, while several other candidates, representing smaller groups in the class, might be elected with only...
...bits of borderland melodrama are "The Singer" by Oliver LaFarge and difficult to see what justification there is for the latter sending a good man into adversity without a proper tragic flaw in his character. Scraft remains loyal to an ill-chosen wife who possesses no lure whatever for him. Finally his virtue engenders a slow hatred and we are permitted to watch him approach destruction. The tragedy is off the stage; the audience is left without catharsis and in dismay at the outcome. Mr. LaFarge happily prefers to prefers to preserve to us a good man and rescues...
Harvard's track team has passed through a reorganization. A new team, reinforced by a definite determination to win and unified with team spirit, enters the Yale meet on Saturday. An estimate of the result based on previous performances shows that Yale is the favorite. The flaw in this estimate is that the spirit and determination of the Harvard team has not been transformed into points and added to Harvard's score. Graduates and undergraduates who are one hundred per cent behind the team and Coach know that Harvard must overcome Yale's estimated advantage by these qualities that...
...Stalky by Inserting Professor Babbitt, under the title of Hugo and Humanist, into two pages of frivolous conversation; and "Billet Ballads No. 4," by J. F. Leys, '22, is a mixture of Kipling's early Indian manner with the pseudo-English of the Saturday Evening Post. One serious flaw is common 'to' both these versious. Nothing happens in them; nothing even seems to happen.- Whereas Kippling had the gift of making his pages appear riotons, although both thought and event were often totally absent...