Word: error
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cross-beams of the Gymnasium are so high that it will be impracticable to hang the "aerial machinery" from them. Probably it will be necessary to put in an iron framework nearer the floor, to remedy the error...
...Hutchinson out at first, assisted by Coolidge. But Yale seems to have complete control of Ernst's pitching, for Parker, Lamb, Camp, and Clark make base-hits in quick succession, and manage to score. Walden breaks the spell by knocking a fly to Holden. Hopkins gets first on an error, but is left at third, as Watson is last man out, Ernst to Wright. Harvard's chances look slim, with four runs for Yale. Coolidge goes to the bat for our side, and earns first, but is put out in trying to steal second. Tyng strikes out, and Ernst closes...
...taking any steps backward, the Faculty wisely "make haste slowly" in their reform. For this reason we have no fault to find that all the courses for the Freshman year are still prescribed. The reform will reach this class in due time. We believe, however, that it is an error to require a greater number of hours in the first year, - in studies, too, in which the student is deprived of a selection. There is good ground also for the complaint often heard respecting the severe requirements of the Freshman year in the various branches of Mathematics. These...
...caught it. A burst of applause greets this brilliant play. Alas! he is on the Nine; an instinct stronger than that of preserving life seizes him; quick as thought, he throws it to second! It has hardly left his hands before he realizes that he has made an error more startling than ever appeared upon his score before...
...Berkeleyan for March contains an article on Robert Burns, which is open to the foregoing criticism, and the final paragraph shows the danger of continuing in speaking or writing after an effort has reached a natural conclusion, although it may be an error incident to inexperience; and in this case the omission of that paragraph would have saved the explicit declaration that "Burns was a man of talent and many excellences," in opposition to the general opinion that he was one of the greatest of the poetic geniuses of the eighteenth century...