Word: fault
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...believed to be less critical towards the end of the speaking than at the beginning. The change, however, is not so unfair as it may seem. The present Junior class will have their turn at last place next year; no one is placed under a disadvantage, the only fault being that this advantage, if it be one, will have been given twice to the present Senior class. But it may be doubted whether this last place is any great advantage; fifty-three per cent of the Juniors who spoke at the preliminary trial are to speak at the final contest...
...server does not stand as directed (4), or serves from the wrong court, it is a "fault...
...Should the server make a fault by delivering the ball from the wrong court, his next service must come from that court from which it should have been delivered before...
...fault cannot be claimed after the next service is delivered...
...ever a lack of patience or tact is to be lamented, it is certainly in the case of a college instructor, and more so in the case of a college faculty. It is so hard for young men to think themselves into the position of older people, that fault-finding and even lack of charity to instructors must be expected from them. But older people have once been young themselves, and for them to punish with such severity a fault that is more a hopeful than a bad sign in a student, is certainly unwise, if not criminal...