Word: incorrection
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...recommended by Madam Edna Hall of Boston and Professor Churchill of Andover. Miss Wehster has been especially successful in helping those who have been troubled with impediments of speech, throat defects, and the numerous hindrances to easy and distinct rendering in both elocution and vocal music, due to incorrect breathing and to ill use of the vocal organs. She will be pleased to meet any who may be desirous of studying either privately or in classes...
...Professor Shaler draws on his own experience of over thirty years to show this view to be incorrect. He notes that in teaching geology in the field, walks which twenty years ago surpassed the pedestrian powers of one-half of his students are now quite within their abilities. He notes that a poor physical condition is now a matter of reproach to a student, which he feels obliged to explain in some way. He says, decidedly: 'There can be no question in my mind that the physical condition of the average student at Harvard College is vastly better than...
...competent trainer. A committee of the senate found that the first had been observed and the other two broken. Belcher explained satisfactorily his unsuccessful attempt to comply with the third condition, but was not pardoned for his violation of the second. He states that he received an incorrect idea of the rule, and thought that candidates for the nine would be allowed to play football if they had permission from the captain. He thinks it unfair for the senate to take this action without having made any complaint earlier in the season, when the matter might have been ad justed...
When we say that the newspaper statements have been, as usual, sensational and incorrect, we certainly do not mean that we are satisfied with the result of the game. We do not like to dispute the result of a game, and we don't do it often; but in this case we feel we must, in duty to the college, protest in Harvard's name against the referees decisions on Thanksgiving Day. If the team itself does not protest at the convention, we shall be very sorry, and we shall consider it a great mistake. The referee's decisions that...
With reference to the ancients, we know very little of the real performances of their athletes It is only very occasionally that any of the classical historians relate details, and some of these are obviously incorrect. For instance, it is recorded that the Grecian Phallos, with the aid of the "Halteeres" leaped a distance of 55 feet. "Halteeres" were something similar, to our dumb bells, which the Greeks held in their hands while leaping. They put their hands back, and, swinging them forward with a sudden motion, took the leap. There is no doubt thert use enabled them to jump...