Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Saturday's defeat seems to have infused new energy into the team, which, dispite the loss of two of the strongest men, played a fast game. There are faults in team-play, however, that the week's training must correct...
Saturday morning the CRIMSON took the Boston Herald to task for its misstatement of the prices of rooms in the new Freshman Dormitories. We have since learned that the Herald was not alone in the mistake and that all the Boston papers were glad to correct it when told of the true state of the case. The Herald printed the corrected account in a much more prominent place than the erroneous one and with much more attractive headlines. It is our duty to say that the original mistake was purely accidental and undesigned. The Herald deserves rather thanks for correcting...
...hope that some steps can be taken to have this newest error rectified in the public press. As for the Herald, a sense of fairness should cause it to set the public right by publishing the correct figures at once...
...trust that this statement will serve to correct any false impressions which, as would appear from your editorial, may exist in the University regarding these two important branches of our public service and that an increasingly large number of Harvard men may become interested from year to year any may go up for the examinations in Washington with the intention of adopting one or the other of the services as their life's work. J.C. GREW '02 United States Embassy, Berlin, Germany...
...reason for the complete reversal of policy with regard to English Composition was, we believe, an economic one. The new policy continues, apparently, from force of custom, though it has its advocates. They argue, among other things, that the average man taking a Composition course regards writing correct English as a stunt, like tight-rope dancing, to be performed only on special occasions in the class-room. This argument has some truth in it, but it is fair to suppose that a man will in the end fall quite involuntarily into the use of his special parlor accomplishment...