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...quite true that the Debating Council conspicuously lacks the support of the undergraduate body. This is not so much the fault of the Council as of the undergraduates, who fail to realize their lamentable deficiency in public speaking, always so clearly revealed when the First Marshal rises to act as chairman of the Lee Wade and Boylston Prize Speaking Contests...
...satisfied with the present arrangement. It is more just to find fault with the individual tutors, who are largely left to their own resources, rather than with the general plan...
...into a one-man tyranny of some able talker. In either case the result is the same, and the purpose of the section is defeated. Such a fact inevitably reflects upon the capacity of the section-hands as leader in discussion; yet too often it is not their fault that they should fall to the mercy of their group. the fault seems really to lie in the section-system itself. Some years ago History 1 endeavored to ameliorate some of its defects as of large classes by the inauguration of the conference group; its success points to possibility of some...
Much has been said in the past few years about the decrease in the number of men concentrating in the classics and literature, but the fault, it seems to me, may largely be laid at the door of the classics department itself. It has failed to recognize that men today are not interested solely in translation and in the discussion of mooted points of philology...
...process of forced liquidation through foreclosure and bankruptcy sale of the assets of individual and corporate debtors who, through no fault of their own, are unable in the present emergency to provide for the payment of their debts is utterly destructive of the interests of debtor and creditor alike and if this process is allowed to take its usual course misery will be suffered by thousands without substantial gain to their creditors...