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Question if the advertisers do not err in sending around their cards at such an unearthly hour as 8 o'clock in the morning. They thereby, it would seem, defeat their own ends. We are met in corners and in doorways, and cards and bills are thrust into our faces. Complimentary tickets are at our plates at meals. Samples from new newspapers to "choice cigarettes" are put into our hands. Scarcely a day passes that we are not in some way reminded of some branch or other, small and great, of Cambridge or Boston business. Our mails are, perhaps, nearly...
...regretted that more intimate relations do not exist between the faculty and the students, if for nothing else, in order that the latter might know whether or not they err in supposing, as many do, that the faculty do not trust the honor of the students, and that their policy is to sacrifice the slight offender or even the innocent transgressor that the greater but undetected wrong-doers may see and tremble...
...White, Manhattan Athletic Club (4 yds.), the time taken by the slowest of the three watches held by an amateur being 10 seconds. The other two watches, held by two well-known representatives of the sporting press, each registered figures inside even time; but the officials, wishing to err on the right side, if at all, took the time of the slowest watch as the record. Mr. W. B. Curtis, of the Spirit of the Times, however (one of the best judges of athletics in the country), states it as his opinion that the race was faster than 10 seconds...
...that system is said to be "absolutely infallible." However, when we hear of a man whose mark was something like minus 18 on the mid-years, rated, on a subsequent consultation of the "curve," at nearly plus 40, we begin to fear that even equations and curves may err. We trust other instructors, seeing that the curve is for once wrong, will be led to overlook their mid-year calculations, and perhaps make a similar pleasing correction...
...preparation for our own? That this is so the author affirms, and maintains, with Spinoza, that "nothing exists merely for something else." "Each moment has its own worth and beauty," and each stage in our history was an end in itself. Another way in which we are shown to err is by forming our idea of history from that of the last few centuries, and reckoning that as progress which is only painful return to a former position...