Word: errs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have added a chapter to the book of college myths. For football has not corrupted the undergraduate mind. Nor should football be blamed for the fancies of its fans. Those are not intrinsic parts of that game. Yet the professional mind can, as the metropolitan press has lately revealed, err occasionally. Sufficient is it to realize that the faculty members have appreciated the undergraduate reaction to over inflation on the football market and have agreed with the critical observations of thoughtful undergraduates...
...other colleges would see the wisdom of adopting similar measures for the good both of American education and of college football as well. The CRIMSON does not believe it would be advisable to adopt measures too radical or revolutionary. Such measures would be likely to overleap the mark and err by attempting too much. Slow and well-planned progress toward a goal which is clearly seen and understood is the best guarantee of final success...
...practicaly every point. From the start, however, Whitbeck was the agressor, driving forcefully and taking the net at every opportunity. The former scholastic champion whipped stinging backhand and forehand drives across the net with amazing regularity until Briggs, one of the steadiest players in the tournament, would finally err into the net or out of bounds...
...those of us who have read from cover to cover every issue that you have ever published do ask assurance that TIME'S statements of fact be made as reasonably accurate as careful editing and repeated checking can make them. At any rate, if you must at times err, please do so as to facts upon which I am informed, as I dislike even to suspect that your fascinating statements relative to matters about which I know nothing are not always 100% correct...
...Mozart, an Austrian (and in Austria there is no lack of temperament) complained that men play with 'less expression' than women. Here in England, where our performances certainly do not err on the side of unbridled passion, it seems what has been called 'a silly pity' to exclude the more emotional half of creation...