Word: corrections
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the house members were grimly divided into two factions. Luncheon conversation became strained. A second notice appeared, but the tension was increased rather than eased. The point of issue, it seems, was the pronunciation of the professor's name. There was a determined faction claiming "Shaipely" to be correct, and a no less adamant group in favor of "Shapply." Asking anyone who actually knew was against the rules, and astronomy concentrators were religiously shunned...
...event was last night. The Shaipliests and the Shappliests were mingled into one excited throng, eagerly awaiting the correct pronunciation from the lips of the introducer. The battle was almost over. The correct pronunciation.--need we tell you?--is Shapley...
Your report of Major Haverfield's declaration concerning illegitimate births in Scotland (TIME, Feb. 18) disclosed a situation most disturbing to lovers of the old country. If the statement that there are 68.9 illegitimate births per thousand population and 11.3 per thousand unmarried women may be taken as correct the number of unmarried women must be well over six times the total population...
...anyone carps at details, such as too covered a tone and often an exaggerated clipping of the syllables--faults that are begotten of over-emphasis on correct principles of chorus singing--the objector must be reminded that it is no small virtue to turn out so fine a performance of pieces as different as Allegri's "Misere" and the coronation scene chorus from Moussorgsky's "Boris Godounov...
...does not hinder, but helps Peter in his competitive swimming at Harvard. He is used to swimming longer and tires less easily than the hot-house variety of natators. The Crimson coaches consider him a better distance prospect than a dash man, and as soon as he learns the correct pace, will develop into as fine a swimmer as ever dove into the Harvard pool...