Word: fault
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...humanity, or more explicitly, the element of human nature in the characters. The adventures and for tunes of the actors are those of no flesh-and-blood creations, and the book lacks the vividness and realness of the truly great novels and romances of the world. And this fault is a great one in the opinion of all who see a novel's greatness in its truth to human nature, and not in a clever plot and romantic adventures...
...most marked fault of this eight is a long hand on the full reach, from stroke upwards. The oars are not pulled through to the finish, and hardly any shoot is noticeable...
...substitutes are Huddleston, 184 lbs., and Rogers, 177 lbs. The most noticeable fault of the crew is a tendency to rush down and hurry the stroke. Yesterday they rowed thirty-eight strokes a minute in a heavy barge. No. 1 jams his hands down on the shoot, No. 2 takes too much water on the beginning; No. 3 has too violent a shoot; No. 4 don't pull his oar through to the finish; No. 5 settles; No. 6 has an imperfect finish; No. 7 swings back too far; stroke dips too deep at the beginning...
...must exercise the most scrupulous care to keep everything in the most cleanly condition possible. We are sorry to note that there has been of late a lapse from the standard of neatness which ordinarily prevails in the gymnasium. It ought to take but a word to correct this fault...
...himself to blame for the blows he received; if he was unwell, Dr. Sargent should never have permitted him to spar. I am sorry the Advocate should have made such an uncalled for attack on a gentleman who entered only to oblige the H. A. A., and whose only fault was that he defended himself too well to please his critics; if criticisms are to be made, they should be both temperate and impersonal, else the college publications will fall to as low a level as the daily press. Above all, there is no need of singling out a freshman...