Word: defective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such defect is the proposal of having two parallel complete systems of education at Harvard, the present system and one based on what the supporters of the Educational Association would term the English system. Such a duplication of effort would be impossible to maintain at any University. A second, and more surprising fault is the expression of opposition to a scheme whereby tutors may grade the examination papers of their own pupils. No such scheme exists at Harvard now, or ever did, so far as can be ascertained...
...public service by popularizing 'Butler's vision of the machines that came alive, provided he would at the same time consent to suppress all but the most delicate of his puns. In S. B. Colby's essay on "Keeping an Open Mind," I notice a curious and probably involuntary defect of style, a battering succession of iambic verses...
...this season the Tufts aggregation has not proved unusually strong and has as yet failed to combine into a unifield team. The Dartmouth team which succumbed to the University of the season against Tufts on the at Hanover and again at the Pavilion, While a sextet from Medford was defect by a large score in a practice scrimmage on Monday...