Word: correct
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...single desk, and we have to take notes as well as we can with our hands full of books. If the authorities have knowingly sanctioned such an arrangement as this, they deserve unqualified censure; and if they have done it through oversight, they should hasten to correct the error. For if now, when we can have the windows open, the air is extremely unpleasant, if not injurious, how shall we endure it when the winter forces us to keep the windows closed...
...requested to correct a statement about the amount of the Iliad to be read for Second-year Honors in 1880-81. The notice published in the Crimson last year should have read: "Iliad, XIII., XVII., and XIX., Ames's or Paley's edition...
...pitchers and catchers - for every contingency. That this difficulty was not foreseen, or, if foreseen, was not properly encountered, seems to have been the chief trouble this year. We make these remarks at this time, not to find fault unnecessarily, but in the hope of spurring them on to correct, as far as they are now able, their present deficiencies, before the final games with Yale are played...
...Advertiser, in its notice of the Boylston Prize speaking, said that there was a marked improvement over the standard of several years ago. It is doubtful whether this statement is correct. Before the adoption of the preliminary system there was a much greater number of candidates than now, and the poor speakers, having a large majority, made the whole performance appear to be of an ordinary kind. At any rate, the present standard is not creditable, and ought to be raised...
...very deficient. Even after the first year there are no steps taken to secure a thorough English education for the students. Sophomore rhetoric increases rather than diminishes the evil, because the least attractive side of the study is presented. We ought rather to read good English than attempt to correct bad; and rhetoric, naturally connected with composition, is, by the present system, entirely divorced from it. Recitations in rhetoric are attended, themes are written; but what connection between the two exists in the mind of the student? Our English electives, too, are deficient, not in quality, but in quantity; they...