Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Common and perhaps inevitable errors were committed in the conduct of the war in Italy . . . It seems to me above all that the initial error was that of under-evaluating the Italian campaign, neglecting its political consequences . . . Churchill . . . announced . . . that in the case of a victorious breakthrough in the Po Valley, the Allies would drive towards Vienna . . . But Roosevelt and his counselors did not have the same vision of the political importance of this strategy, and the withdrawal . . . of several divisions from the Army of Italy for the landings on the French Riviera so weakened the Army that Northern Italy...
That a sampling system is open to big error is apparent from the huge, 728,000-worker difference between the Census Bureau's two figures for January. That month, the Census Bureau tried a new system by increasing its sampling from 68 to 230 communities. It hoped for greater geographical representation, and it wanted to include new industries, e.g., electronics, which have grown up since the war. Since one of the two sampling systems must be wrong, most experts vote for the new system and the 3,087,000 figure. They argue that accuracy should increase through a greater...
Only one of the staff of the night watchmen openly admits having made a serious error while on the job. Joseph Brannan, who is stationed at Langdell Hall in the Law School confesses that one night he saw what he took to a local vandal climbing in through a first-floor window. It was too late to rectify his mistake when, having run his man down, he discovered him to be a middle-aged, still athletic, professor...
...standing, newly set up to administer the program, will be responsible for keeping the plan centered on individual qualification. Yesterday's proposals were purposely vague; the Committee is given sweeping power to map out details. The first years will necessarily be marked by the slow progress of trial and error. But consideration of the individual should never give way to a set of blanker criteria for advanced placement or course reduction. In every case, final decisions should be made on a personal basis, not on test scores...
Transforming Minds. In 1944 Pusey went back to Appleton as president of Lawrence College. By that time he had come to the conclusion that a whole dimension was missing from U.S. education. Like his old Professor Irving Babbitt, he felt that "too many modern teachers commit the error of teaching students to see the evils and shortcomings of society without at the same time pointing out the evils that exist in them [selves]." The purpose of liberal education was not merely to impart knowledge; it was also to "transform personality by transforming minds ... But they [cannot be] transformed ... by materials...