Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happen few dare to prophesy. There are several good reasons for believing that the present cabinet will not weather the storm, as those acquainted with French politics point out. But there is still another reason for this belief outside of parties and politicians, if the "New York Times" is correct in saying that "Poincare does not love conferences. Before he accepted office and ever since he has been repeating the statement, and so it is probable that if any agreement (with regard to the problem of Angora) is ever come to, it will have to be come to slowly...
...publicly posted means the beginning of the end of the Library's difficulties. It is a sad fact that such a procedure should be necessary; but considering the acts that occur over again in Widener, it is an extremely mild method of enforcing the rule. Mr. Lane is quite correct in assuming that student opinion will gladly back this new effort to eradicate the library evils...
...that the Belmont course is a hard course, and for a beginner we thought that we were more likely to retain his interest if we did not run him over hills, but confined his running to distance rather than to the distance plus the hills. Our judgment proved correct, for during the first two weeks of practice the squad remained practically intact. After the first practice in Belmont, however, there was an appreciable drop in the squad, and no amount of urging brought this number back again. There is something important to consider for another year especially...
Slang is at best a temporary relief from the rigor of correct expression, but in a college of liberal arts its continued use is pitifully futile. Profanity is neither more nor less than absence of self-control, and in a community of supposedly maturing men such immaturity is really a matter of shame...
...England which will graduate a man without requiring a single hour of English study, expect its students to aim at the ideal of pure speech? College and student are both at fault, and if the ability to speak reputably is a vital part of the well-educated man, then correct speech for its own sake must be emphasized in precept by the college, and in practice by the undergraduates. --Williams Record