Word: correctable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When interviewed on the subject, one of the civic-minded members of the profession stated: "What the government of the United States believes is best for the people must be correct. Every citizen should obey the instructions of the lawmakers...
Should the prognostications of the New York Times and Herald-Tribune be correct. Harvard must soon succumb to the rebirth of the cycling fad. Then will Dunster forfeit the grandeur of isolation, and then, too, will Jefferson and Mallinckrodt be near enough the Charles to permit Winthrop and Eliot to breakfast in leisure. Radcliffe and Harvard will take a Sunday afternoon spin on a "bicycle built for two," while the more ambitious undergraduate will in one short hour pedal to Wellesley. If Harvard is to be Anglicized, the process may as well as not be complete. The Master of Lowell...
...latter was apt to degenerate, all too often, into a last minute scramble for funds among the wealthy members of the class. Prominent in the Harvard Fund's annual approach to every alumnus and in the voluntary nature of the gifts is the purpose, of course, to correct the disproportion under both of the older systems. The success which has attended the Harvard Fund's efforts merits wholehearted support from this year's graduating class...
...couldn't understand why I should have to have it all by myself. Why shouldn't he have it too, 'l said? But he explained that one would be enough and the one must be me because how else could I get my facts correct? He could draw pictures from looking at me. He said he thought I should look very funny in extremis...
...time, at all events for the average student." H. L. Mencken, famous American writer and critic, told a CRIMSON reporter recently. Mencken, one of the greatest living authorities on the English language, has for many years pooh-poohed the importance of the classics as a background for the correct use of the English tongue...