Word: errors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...find out with very slight error the amount of money in the United States, because currency of the first three classes does not go out of the country. The only difficulty is with class 4. We know, of course, the amount of gold in the treasury and the national Banks, but the estimate of the amount of gold elsewhere cannot be found out accurately. The treasury estimate of 367.6 millions is probably far too high, although it is difficult to put one's finger exactly on the error. One hundred and fifty milions would more nearly represent the true state...
...must occasionally be done by them; a thousand stern supervisors could not prevent that. Hence, even admitting Junior's "several cases" to be valid (I, for one, do not admit it), he has yet to show that they are more than the merely unavoidable ones. Finally, Junior, is in error to anticipate the careful students will at all believe him. An anonymous contribution carries with it no higher authority than its logic and Junior's logic is not above the E stamp...
Some people consider it a fad, a mere passing amusement, and not worthy of serious thought, but in this they make a great error. The object of Civil Service Reform is two-fold; in the first place that the country should be served by competent men, men who are in principles and intelligence worthy to represent the United States; secondly, that we should get rid of this bartering of offices, which has corrupted our country so terribly and given a chance to pigs to push their snouts around the trough and get as much as they could...
Those who stop to reflect on Harvard's achievements will recall that at some date in the past she won a football game, when by an error of judgment a few sons of poor men were allowed on the football team...
...injustice of this arrangement will be felt keenly by the first unlucky set of W's to attend lectures in the Fogg Museum. Whoever may be to blame for the error, there is no denying that the acoustic properties of the new lecture room are thoroughly wretched. In the back rows, especially when the room is full, it is often impossible to hear anything which is being said on the platform. It seems in this case particularly unfair to condemn the end of the alphabetical list to an attendance from which they can scarcely hope for much profit...