Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instruction of men taking them, especially that received in such college courses as German A, 1a, 1b, 1c, and the corresponding French courses, is deficient. Statistics regarding a recent Reading German examination, compiled by a member of the German Department, are evidence that neither of these beliefs is correct. Out of thirty-eight men who took the examination, only fourteen passed; all fourteen were qualified by their work in the courses which now satisfy the requirement in Reading German, to expect a passing mark. Of the remainder, not more than two had done in courses work of such quality that...
...advocated that bibs, tuckers, rattles, and other appurtenances of infancy are suitable for Harvard men. From the press printed elsewhere in this column, it might even be conjectured that this laudable perseverance apparently directed to benefit the student springs, in reality, from bitterly ironic inkwells. If this hypothesis is correct, such a consistently unsympathetic attitude is crushing and borders dangerously on infanticide...
...April 28). Among those who resigned were the wives of Dr. David Starr Jordan and Dr. John Casper Branner. both presidents of oldtime Leland Stanford, "The Cornell of the West." Not among them was Mrs. Theodore Jesse Hoover, who remains a D. A. R., believes she and others can correct conditions better by working within the organization...
Writing on behalf of Mrs. James C. Farrell, I wish to correct a misstatement in your issue of April 7, 1930 that Mrs. James C. Farrell and her two sisters sued their brothers, the late. Nicholas F. Brady and James Cox Brady, the executors and trustees of her father's estate, for mismanagement of funds of the estate. Mrs. Farrell never instituted any such proceeding. On the contrary, both Mrs. Farrell and her two adult children, Anthony Brady Farrell and Mrs. John P. Keresey, were perfectly satisfied with the administration of the trust estate, the principal of which...
...author of the bill making that provision at the last session of the Legislature, I am glad to correct you and advise you that Texas went one better and required a certificate from the male applicant showing that he was free from venereal disease...