Word: errors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...science, that of another, by another. And it is not asking our college authorities to do an unreasonable thing when we demand that they shall indicate as nearly as may be the sources of the training received by the graduates they send forth. It is the common error of new converts to claim more for their system than its merits justify...
...typographical error in a recent issue made the date at which Yale abolished ranking on the social scale 1786 instead...
...been called to an article in your issue of Nov. 8th inst., which purports to be an account of my wedding. I beg leave to state that the above event is entirely unknown to me and single blessedness I still enjoy. By inserting the above, you will correct an error and materially aid the chances of one still a bachelor...
...Harvard way is, as a whole, to read life on its negative side more than on its positive. We think of such enlargements as I have depicted rather as escapes from bigotry and superstition than as possible entrances into deeper faith. We dwell more on the exposure of error than on the discovery of truth in spiritual things. We are more afraid of believing something which we ought not to believe than of not believing something which we ought to believe. We distrust the enthusiasm of faith. As we loose our ship from any mooring of the past, to sail...
...said to herself that she was training boys to make their living, giving them good habits, showing them how to study, now and then, by the way, discovering a bit of truth which had not been known before, now and then, by the way, casting out a bit of error which had been proved untrue, if all the time when she has been seeming to herself to be doing only this, God has been bearing testimony in her to the nearness of his love and to the divineness of manhood as his child, now, at her festival, when she gathers...