Word: incorrection
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...statement which appeared in a Boston newspaper Friday--to the effect that the Cambridge Inspector of Buildings had ordered work stopped on the Union, until satisfactory provisions has been made for fire escapes from the third story--was incorrect. The contractor has stated that there has never been any question as to the adequacy of the provisions in case of fire. There are three different stairways leading down from the third floor, all of them accessible from any part of it. A double force of workmen will be employed on the building, beginning this week, in order that the plastering...
...touch with men in the Department" which was never intended, and assumes that the tutor in question uses this phrase as a "misleading advertising device." I wish to state, therefore, in justice to myself, my assistant, and the men who tutor with me, that both interpretation and assumption are incorrect, and, it seems, to me, uncharitable. Perhaps your correspondent will recognize that he formed his conclusions hastily and ill-advisedly when I state that the phrase "in close touch" means, and has been interpreted, so far as I know, to mean, that my assistant is intimately acquainted with...
...statement printed in yesterday's CRIMSON to the effect that the Harvard Yacht Club had received a challenge from Yale was incorrect. The Harvard club has sent a preliminary note to the Yale club, suggesting that a race be arranged, if possible, between two fifteen-to-twenty-footers. No reply to this letter has been received...
...wages of the individual laborers was ascertained without any accompanying record of the number of men and women receiving particular wages. The work of Dr. Bodio in compiling Italian statistics of labor twelve years ago, though considered valuable at that time, is now entirely discredited on account of his incorrect method of classification. The great development in the treatment of wages statistics has come from this side of the water. Entering upon a field new and unexplored, the American statistician gradually evolved the system of individual classification with the concentration method. For this method there is a classification of weekly...
...statement published under this head in Saturday's CRIMSON was incorrect in several particulars. The list should have been introduced with this statement only: "Commencement parts have been assigned provisionally to the following students in Harvard College, candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts...