Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...birthright to murder the King's English whenever and wherever they please, even to give others a mess of potage. Yet the Transcript vouches for the fact that the Y. W. C. A., perhaps by some form of insidious propaganda, has put in force fines for every lapse from "correct" speech at the dinner table during the week before Thanksgiving, the proceeds to be given to the indigent population of South Hadley for Thanksgiving dinners. In the first two days the bill was run up to over sixty-five dollars, which, at the low rate of fines denotes some nine...
...should be needless to point out that any information which can be given to the public, if it be correct and unbiased, must prove valuable in creating that background which is now conspicuous by its absence. It is equally obvious that the motion pictures have no rival for spreading any kind of propaganda; the best of the best sellers never reaches a fraction of the multitudes who see every widely-advertised "movie". And if historically accurate films are produced with the proper regard for dramatic effectiveness, as are those being prepared under the Yale authorities, they will not be shunned...
...Harvard Crimson has been a pretty well-behaved publication, as undergraduate journals go. In most years its news columns and its editorial comments have reflected a high standard of journalistic discrimination and common sense, and its editors have displayed a correct conception of a newspaper's function, which is to print news that is really news, and be quick about it. They have not found it necessary, for the most part, to trump up sensations in order to make the CRIMSON look like "a regular fellow" among newspapers...
...outset that he is an optimist, a sincere disbeliever in the theory that the evil men do lives after them. He introduces the tricksters and rogues who play a part in the narrative of the countrys progress only when a knowledge of them is essential to a correct historical perspective. His hope is to show that the national difficulties of today and to-morrow are no more intricate and insoluble than those of yesterday, and that time will solve them as it has in the past...
...speech has stirred up more unfavorable comment than it warrants. It is his place to represent the American people. But the fact that he misinterprets his government's attitude, and states his opinion publicly does not necessitate the criticism of two countries. It is the government's duty to correct him and to forget about it. But, according to the Boston Herald, the American administration rebukes him for fear of losing ground in the impending presidential race, while France concludes "that we now have unofficial ambassadors as well as unofficial observers...