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TIME Reporter Tim Miller tested the hot lines by making informal calls to all three colleges. Emporia State and Arkansas, but not Johnson County, corrected his run-on sentence ("Enrollments will continue to decline, no change in the pattern is in sight") and his incorrect use of "less" for "fewer" ("Less students are enrolled this year than last"). The response was no better when he wanted to check out the more subtle misuse of "whom" in a subordinate clause ("They wanted to hire whomever was the best candidate"). A Johnson County instructor correctly insisted that Miller switch to "whoever...
These straightforward, yet not crucial errors parallel the more serious and less obvious faults of the article. We want to first point out several incorrect assumptions which were based solely on the author's limited experience with the conference--assumptions which he never confirmed with any of the other delegates or schools, though he could have easily done so. The article asserts that "they (the conference planners) ...never forged ties to campus political organizations." Aside from Harvard, the following student governments were intimately involved in planning and executing the conference: University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago (including its officers), Stanford...
...seriously mistaken. To say that Henry Rosovsky is an evil man because he has pronounced views on the role of an undergraduate education with which many students disagree, and because he believes it proper to enforce those views with little regard for those who disagree with him, is equally incorrect. These are, after all, good men--brilliant, resolute, high-minded men, firm in their conviction that they are doing what is best for the institution that has elevated them to positions of eminence. The Harvard they serve is likewise a great institution, a home for scholars and leaders and great...
...government's detective work uncovered the fact that about $5800 was credited to a National Institutes of Health grant, and about $600 charged twice to the same account. In addition, the auditors found evidence of some incorrect accounting procedures, such as the method of calculating salary payments to researchers...
Your reference to "the Milwaukee housewife who hauls trash barrels to the curb every Monday morning" is incorrect. No one hauls barrels to the street in Milwaukee. Our sanitary engineers collect trash from wherever it may be: garage, backyard, etc., not at curbside...