Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME transposed the circulation figures, regrets its error...
...knowledge was so eclectic and vast. Dear me, the reason why I knew the name of that tune was because I had marched to it to get my high-school diploma and had for years confused it with Pomp and Circumstance. But once somebody called my attention to the error, and, thank heaven, I profited by the correction-or at least, Brooklyn's Norwegian Children's Home profited...
...problem presented in the CRIMSON editorial of February 23, is discussed on such a superficial level that it demands' further consideration. The first error of which the CRIMSON is guilty is contained in their statement that Lamont Library is responsible for the Negro History Week Exhibit. This is not true. The exhibit is sponsored by The Harvard Society for Minority Rights and is one of the many displays set up by undergraduate organizations in the library throughout the year, none of which is sponsored in any way by the library...
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Liability to error is the lot of all human institutions. But this fact cannot be allowed to undercut their authority. In consequence every society provides systematic ways in which error can be corrected and injustice rectified without diminishing the authority of the agency at fault. In the truly liberal state these established procedures are effective, readily available, and constantly improved. There is nothing especially liberal about a state whose agencies are ineffective. Except in the manner prescribed by law, individual complaints against the competence of judgment and action authorized by law cannot be allowed as arguments against authority...