Word: defects
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...powers of the new Council: anyone who was in touch with the organization in the past knows that the defect of last year's Council was not its personnel--it was representative enough--but its careful observance of the limits of its authority; its punctilious avoidance of certain burning questions which concerned the whole body of undergraduates but which had not been expressly nominated in the bond which created the Council. The new Council of course will have any powers with which it is endowed by the President and Deans of the University on the one hand...
...those who witnessed the birth and death of the first Student Council, the superiority of the new organization is apparent. Nevertheless the new body although more representative than the old, will suffer from the same fatal defect. The scholar, the athlete, and the litterateur are all members of the new Council; but where, in the parlance of the newspapers, do the "common people" come in? Here is X, an able fellow, who is considered too much an ass to make the CRIMSON; and there is Y, too light for an "H," too prosaic for the Monthly, and too meagre...
...Greenleaf Fund and the other "aids" which the Faculty employs to assist men who are working their way through College. In addition to this, by doing away with the advertising and the duplication of work incident to a competitive system, the cost of tutoring would be substantially reduced. A defect,--at least from a pedagogical point of view--of most existing tutoring is its dependence upon printed notes. A seminar in which the men themselves are forced to take notes is perhaps a more arduous, but certainly a more wholesome way of acquiring knowledge, than a tutoring session in which...