Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hampden: "I must judge you wrong in saying a character can appear in a play without making an appearance on stage . . . The question was wrongly put, hence confusing because it included an error. The answer was half right because Pistol is a cowardly braggart. The true answer . . . is that there is no such character. I suggest the show bear the penalty of its error and give the young couple $500 for a correct answer to half the question...
...those who assume that Harvard is bubbling over with currency, let the Divinity School stand as a memorial to their error. For years now, income from the School's small and static endowment has failed by around $25,000 annually to cover the cost of religious instruction, and the Corporation has sweat blood over that. Unallocated funds, which the Corporation uses to cover this deficit, are the scarcest item in modern education, and the Governing Board cannot afford to spend them on anything but the most vital needs. Graduate schools ordinarily do not qualify. As a matter of policy they...
...concert by the Cambridge Society for Early Music is not the dull evening of piddling pedantry you might expect. Too many people think that so-called early music is of solely academic interest, but Erwin Bodky and his group are gradually convincing them of their error...
...Last summer independents were looking at Eisenhower and not at Stevenson particularly; it is always up to the challenger to prove himself. The General's primary error was to forget that his appeal was personal and not political. He set to work to solidify GOP factions, and in so doing, he antagonized independents...
...error occurs in the last paragraph of a letter appearing in the mail page from Isadore H. Y. Muchnick '28, chairman of the Boston School Committee. The final sentence should read: "May I suggest that you examine the record where you will see the proof of all that has been written above and of many other issues which have unfortunately been distorted...