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...earth's crust can fairly be assumed to have been similar to that at the time of the San Francisco shock, in which the rocks at an unknown depth slipped horizontally past each other about 16 feet on a verticle plane. This formation, technically known as a 'fault', extends along the coast, nearly parallel to it, and stretches for a great distance on the ocean's bottom...
...with the queer idea, not of getting there as much as they can, but, by the selection of easy courses, of getting as little as is compatible with graduation. There are exceptions, indeed; but they are not very popular and they acquire no fame. That may be partly the fault of the newspapers, which pay so much more attention to football stars than to the winners of scholastic honors, but if superiority in learning made a man famous in college it would do so out of it as well...
...drill. It is because in a regular contest all three forwards so seldom go down the ice together that Coach Winsor is spending more time on "Two-man" team-work. It was lack of this in the Dalhousie contest that was the Crimson sextet's chief fault...
...that the American press is rapidly becoming degenerate. Several leading journals of the country have undertaken a defense of the press and their arguments are summed up in the amusing comment printed below--giving the public "what it wants" in order to sell the paper. According to them the fault lies with the reader...
...steamship companies at fault; their days of peasant exploitation are proved, by official facts, to be past and gone. The mistakes and seriocomic muddles are official mistakes and muddles alone. That they spring from a law whose application has been made too rigid and impersonal there can be no doubt. After all, the immigrant is not a chattel nor an automaton; he is a human being, and as such must have his own special problems and conditions...