Word: fault
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...goody at present. She receives her pay from the Bursar, without regard to the manner in which she treats those for whose service she is employed. There is no reason why she should do her work as long as she is paid for not doing it. The fault lies not so much in the goody as in the system...
THERE appeared in the last number of the Advocate a criticism of Mr. Emerson's "Letters and Social Aims," recently published, in which the writer casts reflections on our author's age, insinuating that he detects signs of weakness and loss of pristine vigor; and after finding fault with the titles and subject-matter of these essays, he proceeds to detail to us some gratuitous information about Omar Khayyam, alias Chiam, whom he thinks Mr. Emerson has failed to treat with proper deference and appreciation. In spite of his specious remarks on Khayyam, appearances tend to prove that either...
...some notable exceptions, about as near to the boundary of stuff and nonsense as any poetry ever written. I have attentively read Mr. Fitzgerald's translation of Khayyam and Mr. Herman Bickwell's translation of Hafiz, published in 1875 by Trubner Bros., London, and either my judgment is at fault, or the name of Khayyam ought scarcely to be mentioned in the same breath as Hafiz. All those who are interested in Persian literature are recommended to read all of Hafiz's odes and his Sakinamah and Menghanninamah, and to compare them with the best pieces of Rome and Greece...
Besides these professional grumblers, all Freshmen may be considered as amateurs in the same line; but the fault-finding done by the latter, who understand little or nothing of the college institutions, is too absurd to deserve notice, especially as impartial judges will admit that of all God's creatures Freshmen are the most unreasonable...
However, there is an entirely different kind of fault-finding, which, though often not less ridiculous than the former, merits more attention. These ebullitions of college discontent, remarkable chiefly for their number, find vent in the college papers; hence, in order better to judge of them, it might be well to examine a recent copy of the Advocate...