Word: correct
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...difficulties of obtaining correct data are almost insurmountable. In the first place all figures must be obtained by personal inspection, for a manufacturer answering a letter of inquiry would be sure to fall into one or more of the fatal errors enumerated above. The proper method of constructing a schedule is to show the wages paid to each employee through a period of years, but here the statistician is confronted with serious problems. The number of people employed is always difficult to find; and even when that is done he may be unable to compute the duration of the labor...
...excellent judgment displayed, the team by no means played a first-class game. Although a very creditable victory was won, the Pennsylvania game showed that the playing of the team is still far from being thoroughly developed and that many faults exist which will need much hard practice to correct and which will prevent any danger from over-confidence...
After the short preliminary practice, the first and second elevens played two halves of ten minutes each. The first eleven was decidedly superior on the offensive, but did not score until the very end of the second half. This small score does not, however, give a correct idea of the game; for the second team had possession of the ball only twice and did not gain a yard by rushing. The first eleven on the other hand, gained almost at will, and was never far from the goal line. In the first half the ball was carried twice...
Though the instructor is thus an important factor in the community life of a school, correct principles of teaching are quite as essential. In the first place, knowledge as an ultimate goal must be abolished. It has brought with it a system of little less than bribery, in the shape of elaborate methods of marks and examinations -- a system under which true development is put aside for deceptive prizes and honors. The reasonable way of teaching is to bring before the child the incentives of that community life to which reference has already been made. For example, modelling and drawing...
...board expended but 463,000 last year, there was a balance of $137,000 in the treasury which could be legally devoted to their purposes this year, in addition to the annual sum of $200,000. The petitioner contended, however, that the former view was the correct one, and, being so, that the respondents had gone beyond the law by expending more than $200,000 this year, leaving nothing with which to play its claim for damages for the land taken, the market value of which...