Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Often when the West comes to the East (even when the West comes bearing gifts) the visit is made with the assumption that all things occidental are superior, that all things oriental are deplorable. No such error was made in Yenching University's architecture. Here buildings were so designed by able Manhattanite Henry Killam Murphy as to harmonize with the country and the civilization of which they are a part. There are Forbes, Wheeler, Gamble, and Finley Dormitories, but despite their Anglo-Saxon names these buildings have the blue-tiled pagoda roofs, white walls, red lacquer columns, carved porches...
...storm, caused radio broadcasters to believe that the child was a son. Gaily they announced the fact. In distant Japanese villages bonfires were set alight, barelegged, short-jacketed watchmen ran through the streets beating gongs. It was hours before the true facts were learned. Aghast at the error all the officers of Tokyo's central broadcasting station resigned, grimly realized that it was their traditional duty to commit harikari...
Newsmen, scarcely believing Cracker-shot Pershing could commit such an error, tried to verify the Woollcott beat. From Paris, the general was quoted as saying: "There is absolutely nothing to it." In Manhattan Financier Baruch insisted: "It is pure fiction. I ought to know...
...college, how many will be unable to distinguish ragged edges from the unusual traits which make college a failure until they experience the temporary influence of college. A youth of eighteen or twenty who prides himself on being one of these types will not be convinced of his error, if it be an error, by merely doing as he wishes for a year before college. And better that he be a misfit for a few years in college and find himself at last, than that he be a misfit for life. What he judges to be strong points...
...this maneuver he made a tactical error, an infraction of the rules of Senatized warfare, but in the verve of his attack it was overlooked: he should not have addressed himself to the "Senators," he should have addressed the chair saying "Mr. President...