Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does cavil however, at Mr. Batchelder's assertion that the last College Character passed with John the Orange-man. One is inclined to think that he has fallen, here for once, into the error of other graduates, who know of the characters of the past, see those of their own time, but who have lost touch too much with the college to see those of the present. Need one give a list? Perhaps men do not like seeing themselves in print as "characters." But one may point to Terry, recently lamented, or to the whole tribe and olan of Yard...
...Figaro remarked that the verdict was a "triumph of violence" and suggests that the jury became befuddled and committed an error because of the eloquent oratory addressed to them pro and con Royalism...
...NERVOUS WRECK-Discussing with high hilarity the error of selecting one's cemetery plot before falling finally...
...Education vs. Instruction. "It's a great error on the part of teachers to try to give their students instruction. The days of instruction are numbered. You can't teach young men of college age. But you can give them an opportunity to learn...
...would be interesting to know just how the fines have been allocated. For there was probably not a single alleged error for which it is impossible to find plausible justification. Numberless expressions condemned by the purists of today can be found in the greatest classics written in the English language. After all, is it not a sign of intelligence rather than the reverse to use slang? For it is a well worn platitude that the slang of today is the speech of tomorrow; even the majestic Plato used slang in his deepest philosophical works because of its freshness and vividness...