Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those tropical-island stories in which an untutored girl, brought up among the cocoanut palms, falls madly in love with the first young man she has ever seen, a gob landing from an American destroyer. How, one cannot help asking, did she attain her perfect mastery of correct English if her only companion had been a drunken beachcomber of a father, and where did she get the print dress that one discovers her to be wearing, after naturally supposing for the first page or two that she wore the sort of costume commonly attributed to the inhabitants of lonely tropical...
Doubtless there are times when slang is appropriate but there are also times when the use of correct English is indispensable and it would be well for many of us if we could remember to talk English once in a while. --Daily Iowan, University of Iowa...
...abuse itself is half condoned. Let us not suppose that because psychology of crowds is a fact its results are therefore right; or that, because organization and machinery furnish a powerful weapon for propagating ideas on the part of those who believe in them, the ideas themselves are therefore correct. The weapon may be used for an unjust or unwise movement as well as for one that is just and wise...
...statements embodied the ideas of a great number of American citizens, and did no harm, except, perhaps, to a few consciences. But after so loud a cry of "Scandal!", it is but fair that some attempt should be made to determine whether or not that cry is based upon correct premises...
...correct the error in the enclosed clipping from the Crimson by pointing out that the first President of the Harvard Memorial Society was the late Justin Winsor, the distinguished Librarian, historian and bibliographer? This fact is attested by Mr. Winso's signature on the charter members shingles dated May 7, 1895. It would be unfortunate if the Society whose business it is record the history of Harvard should allow its own history to be inaccurately recorded or remembered. JEROME D. GREENE...