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Blame for accidents can be laid upon a number of shoulders. In the first place, the miner himself is often responsible for disaster. When a man with a lighted lamp in his cap fills paper cartridges with black powder, it is obviously his own fault if he does not remove his lamp to a safe distance. Even more gruesome is the sight of a miner tamping a highly explosive dynamite cap with his teeth. The foreman is to blame if he permits anyone to work in rooms with insufficient propping or to ride on trips of cars meant only...
...Meistersinger is Wagner's " human " opera. In The Ring he is accused of megalomania; in Tristan of hysteric; in Parsifal of religiosity. But in Die Meistersinger his only fault is length. And that perhaps is the fault of a restless and rapid age rather than of the master...
Last Wednesday Mr. Israel Zangwill, British novelist and playwright, set what is believed to be a new record in systematic fault-finding. With such startling rapidity were his points of criticism against the United States rattled off that Mr. Zangwill bids fair to equal famous football teams in being a point-a-minute machine...
...chief fault of the play is the ending, which leaves one with the unsatisfied feeling of something yet to come; but this is a small point compared with the many splendid dramatic qualities that it possesses...
...leadership: Co-educational places offer women less chance for leadership. A man is usually " president" and a woman "vice president " of the co-educational organization. But, here again, co-education is not at fault; it is very like the big world, that...