Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole college world may be reached. Just complaint has been made by the defenders of Harvard methods that the attacks upon her system are based in many instances, and especially in the college press, upon a misrepresentation or misunderstanding of the real state of things. It is to correct these mistakes that the present movement has been started. A meeting of all the men interested in this work has been called for Saturday. It is hoped that all will attend in order that a good impetus may be given. It is proposed to appoint a committee to draw up resolutions...
...taking no exercise, 14 in number, had an average of 67.8 per cent.; and the forty-four men who had attended no intercollegiate contests in Cambridge had a mark of 74.9 per cent. The records from which these marks were computed were incomplete, but the averages are probably almost correct for the year...
Professor Castroni wishes to correct the statement in Tuesday's CRIMSON that the price of fencing lessons were only 25 cents. He desires to state that the lessons are that price taken in a class between the hours...
...Princeton game by the foot-ball correspondent of the CRIMSON did not reach Cambridge in time for publication in Monday's paper. Although the report published was the best that could be had under the circumstances, there are many inaccurate statements made in it. It would be difficult to correct these sufficiently without giving another long detailed account of the game; which the editors think hardly worth while, as the subject is now four days old. But to correct the entirely wrong impression the accounts of the Boston papers seem to have given those who did not see the game...
Henry Cabot Lodge spoke eloquently of Harvard and Harvard's name. We are not here to assert that we are the only representatives of Harvard, but to correct the false impression of the Independent meeting. The college is not the property of any one, but is devoted to the truth alone. Rich, of the Law school, spoke at length, stating the proportion of protectionists in college compared well with the free traders. The meeting ended with a stirring speech by Gov. Long...