Word: errors
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...facts and should be perfectly reliable. If there is a discrepancy, however, between the monthly reports and the price for the term, the latter must carry the day, and for two reasons: (1) It is based on the expenses for the long period, and, therefore, less liable to error, and (2) the total amount of bills paid is then verified by comparison with the bursar's account of money disbursed...
...gain fuller knowledge. It would certainly tend to promote feelings at once of friendship and of a generous emulation between the leading universities of New and Old England. With your permission I would venture to suggest two or three points in which the article referred to is somewhat in error. There are twenty-three "colleges" at Oxford and four "halls," which latter are not "corporate" bodies, nor have they endowments for fellows, nor, with a trifling exception, scholarships; while if they have or acquire property it is held in trust for them by the university. Students in these halls, generally...
...printer's error occurred in our statement of the rowing rules yesterday morning, by which we were made to say that accidents would be allowed for in the first two strokes. It should have read ten strokes...
...made such an investigation he might have discovered at the same time a striking uniformity in the four cents a week per capita in all the reports, and in that case a very simple multiplication by the number of men in the hall would convince him of his error as to the $100. Moreover, although the condensed report in the HERALD was not so clear as the posted one, it is strange he did not notice that the $194 itself is for two months...
...developing the muscles as well as the brain. Dr. McCosh is an intelligent man, but on the subject of physical culture he is as far from the golden mean as the man who advocates the other extreme. Excessive athletic exercise is as injurious as none at all, and the error of the president of Princeton College is shared by many people. We are told by the learned professors that occasionally a student suffers some slight injury in the gymnasium which for a day or two necessitates absence from the class room, but nothing is ever said of the broken down...