Word: incorrection
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There is a gain of 59 students in the academical department over the numbers of last year. The statement that was published to the effect that this department had sustained a loss is incorrect...
...rush" between '88 and '89, harmless and good-natured as it was, the Boston press, notably the Herald, was filled with highly sensational accounts of the affair; these statements were at once copied over the country under the title of "Ruffianism at Harvard." As a specimen of the incorrect statements that got afloat, I received yesterday a letter from an anxious relative asking about the condition of the man who was "very seriously injured in the rush." Now Yale and Princeton have received the same ill-treatment from the press, but they have not the same grounds for complaint...
...report of the mile run last Saturday published in the CRIMSON was incorrect. Mr. Brandt, '85, was a good second at the finish, and Mr. Root, '85, a close third...
...idea is to collect into one place full information upon each of the important topics of present history. The trouble with our careless, intermittent newspaper reading, is that we get but an imperfect, hazy, often incorrect knowledge of passing events. The purpose of the proposed plan is expressed in the phrase-to present a compendious summary of contemporaneous history...
...esteemed contemporary, the Advocate, has been indulging in a little prophesying on its own account, and the result has been rather startling in its nature. Among the many happenings which this much-gifted prophet foretells for us, one at least we modestly assert will prove incorrect. Others, it is very probable, may be no more correct than this, but of those we do not speak, we lay no claims to the mysterious art of the seer...