Word: error
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...error on the part of the score-keeper, the Freshman polo team, which really tied the Fifty-first Brigade, Field Artillery, in their game Saturday night by the score of 5 1-2 to 5 1-2, was reported in the CRIMSON Monday as having been defeated by the score...
...statue of Theodore Roosevelt by Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt (Mrs. Harry Payne) Whitney, to be erected at Culebra Cut, on the Panama Canal. It was easy to foresee that U. S. poets might seize this news as a theme with a classic precedent. The classic precedent, however, contains an error. The traveler who first stood "silent upon a peak in Darien" was not "stout Cortez" (Hernando Cortez) as sung by Poet John Keats. It was Vasco Nunez De Balboa. Poets celebrating the proposed Roosevelt statue should bear in mind that Darien is an eastern dis- trict of the Republic of Panama...
...ballots to be considered must be signed by the votes and should be marked in pencil. In case of an error in marking a ballot, only that part of the ballot will be void in which the error has been made...
...important to place responsibility for the delay, shared alike as it doubtless is by professor and college office. The unpleasant fact is, however, that the effects of this sluggishness have been such as to make a repetition of the error next year undesirable. It is only natural in a university whose intellectual life centers so about its library that any sudden pressure on this nerve center sends radial waves throughout its sinews...
...guilty is the only possible reply to the accusations, it must also be remembered that both ideas are, like the Japanese beetle, importations. Responsibility for the practise is shared among the three colleges named, but the responsibility for the invention itself lies with Oxford. And the grievousness of the error is measurable in terms of the importance of debating as one of the forces on youth...