Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: This week in a preface to some extracts from an article of mine in Plain Talk, you made a rather serious error. You siad I was red-headed and amiable. I'm neither and just now more one than the other...
...horizon; it is the obligation of education, if need be, to undergo attack, to accept contempt, and to endure derision from contemporaries who are more interested in maintaining their own opinions than they are in knowing what is really so. It is the function of education, when error is found, to denounce it; it is the privilege of education, when truth is found, to proclaim...
Having delayed sending you a correction of your error of Dec. 12 in stating that Senator Warren is called "the greatest shepherd since Abraham because as Chairman of the Appropriations Committee he guides whole flocks of bills," I find now that W. M. Ledbetter in your issue of Dec. 26 has given what I believe to be another erroneous explanation of this title by stating that it was conferred on Senator Warren "by the late Champ Clark because of the Senator's vast sheep interests in Wyoming." I feel sure that the designation was conferred on the venerable Senator...
...correct an error in an article appearing in your Dec. 5 issue on Sport, entitled "Chicago Horse Show"? In it, you state that the S. P. C. A. accepts a decree that tail-sets are agreeable to horses. Neither the Anti-Cruelty Society nor the Illinois Humane Society accepted any such viewpoint. (The S. P. C. A. was not drawn into it, to my knowledge). Mr. Otto Lehman proclaimed in the papers that the battle was over. "The wish was father to the thought": he had such difficulty in getting the horse show togther that he struggled against any interference...
...error in the original stellar calculations was detected yesterday morning when a mountain observatory in Oregon sighted the speeding sphere under conditions of visibility more favorable than those to be found in Cambridge...