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Word: error (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Three men have been training to catch Bickham, the Princeton pitcher. In one game in which Bickham pitched, the catcher made no error...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/4/1886 | See Source »

...years out of a Theological Seminary, and but six years out of college; but the ability and acquisitions of the Rev. William DeWitt Hyde seem to merit this honor; and those who know Bowdoin and who know Mr. Hyde are of the opinion that the college has made no error in her choice. Mr. Hyde entered Harvard from Exeter Academy in 1875, with already a good reputation for scholarship and for facility in public debate. He won honors all along his course, both from faculty and students. By the end of his-senior year, though one of the youngest members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: President Hyde. | 4/21/1886 | See Source »

...abstract of chapter XI "the Possibility of error" in the text-book in Philosophy 3 is a voluntary exercise. Those who wish to have their theses marked will add a thorough criticism to the abstract. The mark will count one fourth of the final examination. The theses are due any time before June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/4/1886 | See Source »

...fact that the recent disturbances in the north entry of Thayer were caused by sophomores, - not freshmen; as the latter gentleman naturally feel aggrieved at being reproved for offences of which they were innocent, we are only too glad to do them the justice to correct our error. We shall always be ready to rectify any mistakes in our columns, and hope that whenever we have done in justice to anybody we shall be informed of it at once. But we cannot close this editorial without again expressing our severe censure of "fresh" conduct of any sort, whether from freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/26/1886 | See Source »

...wish to correct an error which appeared recently in our usually accurate contemporary, the Princetonian. In discussing the sizes of the incoming freshman classes at Yale, Harvard and Princeton, the Princetonian referred to Harvard and Yale as colleges which held out inducements to students by offering prizes at the freshman examinations. We do not know what is the practice at Yale, but at Harvard no prizes of any description are awarded at the freshman examinations. Harvard depends upon her own merits to attract students to its halls, and does not need any little system like that which the Princetonian advocates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/24/1886 | See Source »

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