Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Captain Halstead Dorey, who is in charge of the organization of the students' military instruction camps has written to the University to correct a statement which appeared in the newspapers recently. The War Department has made no change in the camps in this section of the country, and they will be held as scheduled from July 5 to August 8, inclusive...
...building of the sounding boards in order to obtain the perfect and correct acoustics of the open air stage has been planned under the direction of skilled engineers. The boards will be made of a compressed licorice root which is imported form Turkey. The larger board will cover the entire front of the stage and will be 20 feet inside the stage lines with a five foot front extension. A smaller board for orchestral effects will cover half the orchestra pit, which will be 85 feet long by 20 feet wide. In order to protect these boards and the other...
...safe to grant that this criticism is correct; yet the founding of a state university is sure to prove a clumsy and extravagant solution of the problem. The present provisions for higher education in the state do not fall short in one large requirement, but in many small ones. The fifteen or sixteen colleges in Massachusetts provide a regular course of study well above the average. The duplication of such equipment occasioned by a new University would be a total loss to the state. The same is true of such institutions as medical, divinity, and law schools. The place...
...often been remarked that the average college graduate is woefully deficient in his English. Few college men are able to punctuate or spell with any degree of accuracy, and what is much harder to correct, they cannot express themselves clearly, verbally or on paper...
...prospects this year much more promising. The team has been crippled by the unexpected loss of several of its best men. Some of this can be laid to bad luck, but by no means all of it. Something is fundamentally wrong; something which only a radical change can correct...