Word: blundered
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...notice of Mr. Leavitt, who was conducting the sale. The manager of the eleven and Mr. Leavitt regret exceedingly that this happened. Mr. Leavitt, who has sold the foot ball and base ball tickets without charge for ten years as an accommodation, is especially sorry for this his first blunder...
...photographs of seniors loaned to the publishers of the Portfolio will be returned, as far as possible, this week. Owing to a blunder of the workmen a number of the cards were mutilated. These photographs will be returned as soon as they can be obtained from Pach Bros. These photographs, in good condition, excepting that a part of the mounting card has been cut off, will be sold at a nominal figure at 14 Stoughton...
...worthy men who uphold the compulsory system undoubtedly long to bring into the church students who are out of it, and they believe that by compelling such students to go to church they may attain their end. But we are satisfied that they are making a great blunder. They are trying to win those who are out of the fold. Those who are already in it will voluntarily avail themselves of religions privileges and, with rare exceptions, remain steadfast in the faith. These are not the students for whose improvement and conversion the college authorities express anxiety. But if compulsion...
...referring to your first article, I called it "inaccurate;" while, by your own admission, that adjective was not wholly inappropriate, I think, on the whole, I might better have used the word "misleading." When I used the word, I was thinking, not of the trivial blunder as to the cost of the "blazers," but to the rather broad and harsh clause in which it is said that the provision of such "luxuries" as "blazers," etc., "indicates a looseness in the handling of the crew money, which it would be well to investigate more closely." It may be true that such...
...that the bell for chapel is rung on time, much inconvenience would be avoided. It is very disagreeable to rush over to chapel and find the doors closed, or else just succeed in getting in, breathless, all because some one forgot to give proper notice. Such a blunder, while but a slight one, is yet almost inexcusable in its nature and we trust there will be no repetition...