Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...each other think up jokes. Apparently times have not changed, not the ways of candidates or editors in them. Yet jokes, like poets, are born, not made. Humor means, if anything, an irrepressible, sensitiveness to incongruities, and contradictions in things, unspirited, be it added, by any immediate desire to correct them. Its expression is a revelation to itself, a, sudden unexpected sparkle and flash refracted from some absurdity. College humor, moreover, should be provincial in accent. The joke-in-general is a last despairing cry. The latter requirement, however, demands more than the humorous eye: there must be oddities-rough...
...proofs of the class lists for the University Catalogue will be taken down Monday, all members of the University who have not yet done so should immediately see that their names, classes, degrees, and addresses, both at College and at home, as printed on these lists, are correct, in order that no mistakes may be made in the annual Catalogue. Errors should not be corrected on the proof sheets, but should be reported as follows: in the College, Scientific and Graduate School lists at University 2; and in the Law School lists at the delivery desk in the reading room...
...this is the Bulletin's conception of its responsibilities, then it is time for undergraduates to correct the malicious impression which the article gave, not only to thousands of graduates, but also to the general public. J. D. ELIOT...
...University are requested to see that their names, classes, degrees, and addresses as printed on lists are correct, in order that no mistakes may be made in the annual Catalogue. Errors should not be corrected on the proof sheets but should be reported as follows: in the College, Scientific, and Graduate School lists at University 2, and in the Law School lists at the delivery desk in the reading room of Austin Hall...
...Freshman football squad yesterday afternoon was devoted entirely to signal drill. Two teams were formed and put through plays, which were run off with considerable smoothness. The make-up of the teams was continually changed and shifted, but in the main, the line-up given below is correct...