Word: correct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regular hiking companion with Major General R. McC. Tompkins, U.S.M.C., former commanding general, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, S.C., and now commanding general, 3rd Marine Division, Viet Nam, I wish to correct your statement concerning the general's " . . . limp at the end of a ten-mile hike" [Nov. 24]. From my observation of General Tompkins, as we hiked with thousands of (wide-eyed) recruits on weekly twelve-mile jaunts at Parris Island, I can assure you this statement is incorrect-there is no limp. The general does carry a walking stick when hiking which, in his words...
Dean Ford stated yesterday that students on probation will not be eligible to serve on the Advisory Council. If the Faculty's Regulations for students in Harvard College are followed strictly, Dean Ford's decision is logical and correct. The Regulations say that a student on probation may not "hold class office or other positions of honor and responsibility, hold office in a student organization, or engage in any competition or activity which, in the opinion of the Dean, may interfere with his College work...
...shrouded. And even when questions of misquotation do not arise, matters of context and meaning to do. Since my views on the fall-out from the Dow demonstration took up many inches of your space on Saturday, and somewhat misleadingly at that, I hope you will allow me to correct or alter some impressions...
...this view isn't entirely correct. On every major question during the last year, the CCA members have voted together. But the Independents are hardly as united. They often split among themselves, and these divisions add some excitement to School Committee politics...
...most other subjects, Perry had the grimly methodical soul of a New England reformer. He improved lighthouses. He energetically earned the title, "Father of the Steam Navy." He was correct even about the future: he prophesied that the Pacific would become America's sea of destiny, and he warned that one day there would be a showdown with Russia. But his correctness -his insufferable common sense-fails to compel the imagination...