Word: errors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your otherwise informative note on concentration in History and Science carried with it one error which I would like to correct. You comment that the rules relating to college study are inaccurate when they suggest that most seniors take their generals in one of the regular fields of history, and suggest instead that they actually use the History of Science...
...sure that you will correct this error by putting the statement in its proper context. Thank you for your generally fine coverage. James Roosevelt, Jr. Speakers Chairman
...plans to bounce high-frequency radar pulses off Venus as it begins to swing behind the sun. If Einstein's theory holds, the radar waves will be slowed down slightly as they pass through the strongest part of the solar gravitational field-enough to cause a 40-mile error in radar measurement of the distance of Venus from the earth...
...part of a computer program. His Eng Sci 110 friend, now a programmer for a California company, wrote a computer program so that, after the user had made an absurdly simple mistake in working the machine, the computer would print out, "Congratulations! You have just committed the impossible error. Please notify Stephen Potter immediately at this address..." The program got world-wide distribution and a few weeks ago Stephen received a letter from a very embarrassed French Army Minister...
...righthander, faced only 29 men, striking out five and walking only one with his overhand and sidearm fastballs. Jim McCandlish performed creditably enough on the mound for the Crimson, but given the sorry state of the Harvard offense, the only way he could have won was by a clerical error...