Word: errors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last two years Higgins experimented by trial and error and finally developed a 16-hour procedure for making a mask which never wears...
...Diego's program attempts, more than most, to bridge the gap between academia and the community. "Bring friends, daughters, mothers or neighbors," Barbara Kessel urges her class on the Socialization Process of Women. Teaching methods have had to be devised by trial and error. "I've erred both on too little consciousness raising and not enough," Instructor Kessel admits. She says she started out by asking her students to go out and observe women in various roles in society, but she recalls that "one girl raised her hand and asked 'What should we be looking...
...AFTERMATH of the strike of 1969 the University reiterated its commitment to educational reform. Ernest May, dean of the College, saw the anger and frustration which pervaded the undergraduate body. He believed that curriculum reform was long overdue and proceeded to take steps to correct the error...
...labor of excavation itself proved, in varying degrees, exciting to diggers, although novices exported romantic notions about archeology which the dig pitilessly disillusioned. Every volunteer was instructed by his site supervisor in a crash course about field methods, and learned to dig by trial and error. Field work was really manual labor. At one site during the final season, diggers pick-axed for nine hours through modern street pavement and bedrock every day before they could begin the usual troweling, which was far less tiring, but more painstaking work. To dig well required patience and exactitude, imagination and endurance...
...Phelan errs in this account, since Millikan was never president of Caltech. He was chairman of the executive council. Interestingly, Irving repeats this same error in his version of the anecdote, and adds one of his own, mistakenly using Richard as Millikan's first name...