Word: corrective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practical English. A course in writing and speaking, to teach correct use of the English language for practical business purposes...
...aside from the regular cross-country meets, a Freshman Inter-Dormitory meet, and either a handicap meet for all track candidates or a meet in Boston for the University team. These meets will be for the purpose of accustoming the new men to competition, and for instruction in the correct method of running races...
...Executive Branch of the government to get all the funds possible out of Congress for the purpose of extending the power and influence of each separate bureau. All of this, of course, leads to inefficiency and gross extravagance. The whole system is wrong and now is the time to correct...
...length on the desirability of the preservation and furthering of the existing friendship among English-speaking peoples. He also touched upon the fact that through fear of various consequences newspapers today suppress much news that the public should know, news that often would clarify circumstances and give a more correct version of affairs. He declared that newspapers are practically subsidized by their patrons, particularly advertisers...
...Harvard. It would seem, therefore, that when Mr. Palmer assumes that the judges "are completely in accord with the Institution and ideas which the Harvard team stood for and are completely in discord with the principles that the team from the West brings with them," he is not even correct in his premise, which renders his rather violent conclusion that therefore they were unfit and would act unfairly, distasteful to believers in fair play...