Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...typographical error, P. H. Robb '25 was credited with 176 votes in yesterdays election for Senior Marshal. The correct figure...
...Magnolia Lady. Ruth Chatterton is not a good musical comedienne. She sings only mildly and dances doubtfully. Her charm is forced a trifle out of focus by the unfamiliar medium and her emotional accomplishments are not required. Her experiment behind an orchestra is therefore declared an error...
...long been suspected that Yale is a breeding place of error and corruption, but it is flattering to find that no less an intellectual than the archpriest of commerce shares the view. At decent intervals the descendants of John Harvard have striven to convince the stubborn Elis of their inherent sinfulness, but the well-known disrespect of the undergraduate has been an insuperable obstacle to conversion. When confronted with the doughty, or doughy, legions of Mr. Grant, the Bulldog cannot but turn tail with a weak...
This letter is to correct a slight error of the last two issues of TIME which, as an interested reader and subscriber, it occurs to me you would like to set straight. You in each issue refer to the football team of the University of California as the "Golden Whales." Any team from this, my alma mater, is known as the ''Bears," less frequently as the "Golden Bears." The name comes from the fact that the Grizzly Bear is our State animal, so to speak, being a chief feature of our coat of arms and the Great Seal...
Undoubtedly however, there must have been some unpleasantness somewhere, sometime; and I have three reasons for that unpleasantness reasons that I figured out over there, on the spot. The American Team was booed in the Olympic Games largely because of its numbers, because of a psychological error on the part of those in charge, and because of the attitude of Americans in general when they travel abroad. The accusation of semi-professionalism in our athletics, of playing the game to win rather than for the sport of it, does not seem to me to hold good us a reason...