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...yard: As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal man at Washington turns the water into ice, as we gracefully measure our length in front of the University, we think of this. We do not find fault with the management of our beloved institution, but we mildly hint that plank walks, such as are each winter on the Boston Common, would be a blessing to Faculty and students...
When a TIME report falls right into our midst on an item as intimately familiar as the one covering Wilbur Glenn ("The World is Flat") Voliva (TIME, March 16), it tempts us to read more critically. However, we have no fault to find...
...fundamental fault in modern poetry is its lack of morality. In presenting this thesis in his Charles Eliot Norton Lectures for 1929-30, here published, Professor Garrod does not shrink. To tell a world of poets who detest the touch of morality when they grope in the dark for the hand of beauty that the weakness of their work is their own attitude requires, if not courage, conviction and firm bases...
...Faults &Horrors, The worst fault of the G. P. U. is that it intensifies the worst qualities latent in Russians: hesitation, laziness and the attitude of What does anything matter...
...inflation instead of adopting the recommendation of the New York Federal Reserve Bank for tipping the rediscount rate. When this rate was belatedly advanced from 5% to 6% it was admittedly insufficient to turn the tide. Though witnesses were not rude enough to say so, they implied that the fault lay largely with the foggy-headed uncertainties of Roy A. Young, the Governor of the Board...