Word: correctness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...articles which appear in the magazines from time to time on the condition of affairs in these new dependencies they are probably little understood and appreciated by the average citizen. A long, carefully prepared magazine article though well supplied with pictures will not generally succeed in giving as correct an idea of the situation and at the same time be as interesting as a lecture delivered by a man who knows of what he speaks and is assisted in his explanations by stereopticon views...
...class lists of College, Scientific, and Graduate School students for the University Catalogue have been posted in the south entry of University Hall. All men in these departments of the University are requested to see that their names, classes, degrees and addresses as printed on the lists are correct, in order that no mistakes may be made in the annual Catalogue. Errors should not be corrected on the proofs, but should be reported at University...
...writer, and, furthermore, it has found in past years when only ten cents in postage was required that it has been obliged to pay in the neighborhood of $300 to cover the extra postage required on letters that are over weight. All of the writer's assumptions are correct except the statement that two cents will bear the weight of the envelope and its contents. It will be sufficient for some of the letters, but for many it is not, and the Association has safeguarded itself by requiring twelve cents...
...like the majority of Harvard graduates of that time; but not long after, like many other of these same men, he became a Republican. There were two reasons for his becoming a Democrat: the political economy then taught in College favored free trade, and the Democratic platform was "mathematically correct." Later he realized that idealism enters politics as everything else, and that mere mathematical precision is not practical. Among other arguments for a protective tariff he argued that a country should be self-supporting...
...task before it is a big one. It will take a large amount of pressure to correct certain of the tendencies which it is proposed to alter and it will not be done in a day. An innovation such as this will require no little time to arrive at the most effective working basis, and the results must be considered accordingly. The encouragement received from the Athletic Committee will be of great assistance in the early months, but eventually the Council will work into its own particular relations with undergraduate life. There is no reason why they should not prove...