Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long unknown fact became public last week. The coat of arms of West Point Military Academy, borne for many a year, was discovered to have been adopted with a number of wretched errors in heraldry. It consists of a helmet, pierced by a sword pointing diagonally downward, imposed upon a vertically striped shield. The whole is surmounted by an eagle. The direction of the sword was from upper right to lower left, the same as the "bar" or, more correctly, the "bend-sinister" (denoting illegitimacy). The eagle faced to the right so that, when carried on a banner, it faced...
...suicide. The myth of a liberal college is still supposed to persist despite this fact. Most of us shall leave Cambridge, sheepskin, honors, keys at also, we shall carry with us a smile for these hypocritic days: also a pretty little chip on our shoulders. If this be error and upon me proved . . . Irwin Rosen...
...clear some of it has been unjust. The real issue is at last apparent: Is there an important place in Harvard for a "permanent school for playwrights"? The CRIMSON believes that theatrical training has such a place in the University; and that the administration committed a serious error in judgment when it adopted its present opinion...
...error in judgment, however, is not necessarily permanent. With the knowledge that the general opinion is opposite from its own, the Corporation can change its views and as a first step act favorably on Mr. Wister's report...
...guilty of the grotesque error (common among Easterners) of believing there is only one Kansas City, and that it is in Kansas. For your information, Kansas City, Kans., has 125,000 population and Kansas City, Mo., 400,000. The wrestling bout you so graphically described took place in the latter...