Word: errors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first editorial article in the Advocate of October 24 pleads for two weeks recess at Christmas; the second expounds the value of keeping certain hours sacred to study. Both are good-humored. Both are persuasive also; though the first suggests belief in the vulgar error that work is evil, and the second treats as a discovery what every sensible schoolboy knows. "The better plan is to have times appointed for study as for other pursuits," is more nearly worth saying in Harvard College than it ought to be. "Time passed with a book is not always passed in grasping ideas...
From the point of view of baseball, however, neither team played as well as the lateness of the season should warrant. Pennsylvania's base running was ragged at times, while Harvard's errors the error and scored on Alsop's three-bagger. Wingate then struck out, reiring the side...
...beginning to wonder as to just how valuable all this statistic-mongering is, after all. There are so many external factors to be considered in such investigations that error is peculiarly easy. We do not mean to cast any aspersion at such endeavors to classify the student, we merely suggest, that all such reports can only be considered in a very general light...
Both teams played fairly well in the field, although Reed's error in the fourth inning was disastrous. Yale outhit Princeton, but, with the exception of the last inning, was unable to hit at opportune times. Copeland's wildness was also a factor in Princeton's defeat, as he gave three passes in succession in one inning...
...Class Day tickets that were assigned on the first application were mailed yesterday, and any man who finds an error in the filling of his application should make a complaint to the Class Day Committee as soon as possible. The chairman, R. B. Batchelder '13, will hold office hours in Thayer 37 daily, except Saturdays, from...