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Word: corrections (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order. I do not know whether papers from all course in the Department are read by the same correctors my plaint specifically concern French 2. In this course an exercise in idiomatic composition is required once a week. And each week when I am landed back my corrected paper I am forced to concede the justice of about one-third the red ink spilled thereon--but with the other two-thirds I take strenuous issue. Even the class instructor's version often differs with the readers. "Just a difference of opinion between experts," or "Perhaps the reader interpreted the passage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 12/15/1931 | See Source »

...course strip to the waist while she, Alice, sat in the balcony. This mushy apocryphal tale will be "scotched" by the writer in the proper place and was evidently taken and elaborated from another author who has, or will, also correct it and has written me acknowledging his error. But to me this is ridiculously inaccurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 14, 1931 | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...Indicate which one of the following "multiple choice" answers is correct in each case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Times Offers Another Group of Questions and Answers to Arouse an Interest in Current Event Topics | 12/4/1931 | See Source »

Permit me to correct a partially incorrect statement in TIME, Nov. 16. On p. 12, "The ist Ohio," you refer to Congressman-elect John B. Hollister, as "a Harvardman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1931 | 11/30/1931 | See Source »

Certainly the University authorities are correct when they maintain that not everybody has a right to know all concerning Harvard finances. Very few could understand the entire system. But undergraduates should be able to learn more about their University's finances. The House Plan has exacted an additional expense and is a live issue among them. Why, for instance, should they not know the total expenses and income of the seven new dining halls in which they are eating? How is the money which the large room rents bring in distributed? These two questions concern the undergraduate most because they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REPORT OF THE TREASURER | 11/28/1931 | See Source »

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