Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...higher may, upon obtaining permission from their respective Assistant Deans, be allowed Dean's List privileges in regard to the extension of the Christmas recess. The notice appearing on Friday, December 14, that this latter privilege did not extend to Freshmen was the result of an office error...
...call your attention to an error in the article published in the CRIMSON of November 28 on the concentration of the class of 1931. The Department of Romance Languages was credited with ten concentrators and one candidate for honors. The figure at the office of the Tutorial Board shows that 82 members of the class of 1931 are concentrating in Romance Languages of whom 64 are at present in good standing--33 being candidates for honors, 20 of whom are at present in good standing. The Department of Romance Languages should therefore now be credited as ranking fourth instead...
...margin of error in such standards as college board marks and secondary school grades becomes increasingly wide as the proportion of applicants for admission accepted by colleges diminishes. The chances that the student who averages seventy percent in his entrance examinations will have greater capacity for college work than the student who averages sixty five by no means amount to certainty. Still less can a sure distinction be made between the eighty and seventy five...
...representatives in Italy, noting the fate of the Board of Censors, trembled for the future of their cinema, wished earnestly that it had not committed the grievous error of showing Italian "human landscapes immersed in endless fogs...
Since then Director Laemmle has freely acknowledged his error, has appealed through the Exhibitors' Association to British justice not to "contemplate unending punishment." Last week, Director Laemmle was able to derive some comfort from the statement by the Association that it would reconsider the case...