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Owing to a misprint Wednesday we were made to say that the prayer petition will be "circulated this year through the year," whereas it was intended to convey the impression that it will be circulated through the mail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/11/1885 | See Source »

...misprint in our yesterday's issue, it was stated that a special examination would be held in Phil. 14, instead of Phil. 4, on June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/14/1885 | See Source »

...often asked a question, especially if a visitor was in his classroom, merely to open the way for a joke or a sarcasm. He once passed a question about a peculiar Greek accent entirely round a class, eliciting Various crude guesses, and then dryly remarked: "It is a misprint." Many will remember his question as to what was done with the persons who were killed at Thermopylae. This called out various answers, to Which he replied by a shake of his head; but when one hopeless freshman replied that he did not know, he answered: "That is right; nobody knows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR SOPHOCLES. | 1/7/1884 | See Source »

...Dartmouth's lines read thus, with the correction of an obvious misprint at the end of line sixth, whether due to the Advocate or the original we cannot say. They are taken from the "Faerie Queene...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYING WITH EDGED TOOLS. | 5/4/1877 | See Source »

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