Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...oversight the following omissions occurred in our tables of last week. In the running high jump, after Mr. Morrison's 5 ft. 2 in. record, the line should read instead...
...brief recess or wait until his return. It would seem that if the room-lists are to be ready to-morrow, a little additional exertion could have brought them out to-day, to the convenience of a large number of men. The mistake is doubtless due entirely to an oversight, but we think that a little more thought might have been bestowed on the matter, and a real though trivial annoyance spared to the students...
...speaking this year. Can it be that President Eliot has no very high estimate of the study of elocution? or does he regard the great impetus that has been given to it lately by the students themselves as a mere ephemeral matter? We prefer to believe that it was oversight on the President's part that led him to overlook a study in which more than one hundred and seventy-five men are directly interested, and we hope that he will speedily turn his attention to bettering the existing conditions...
...done in the case of the ball nine in 1878, and of the races last year. Tablets recording the first three class races were placed in the Gymnasium, and it was hoped that the custom, once started, would not be allowed to fall into disuse. But, either owing to oversight or negligence, no record of the last October races has yet appeared in the Gymnasium, and it is time for the Executive Committee of the Boat Club to see that this omission is rectified. It is also proper, in this connection, to remind the Athletic Association that a similar step...
...lectures every other day, there is not a single desk, and we have to take notes as well as we can with our hands full of books. If the authorities have knowingly sanctioned such an arrangement as this, they deserve unqualified censure; and if they have done it through oversight, they should hasten to correct the error. For if now, when we can have the windows open, the air is extremely unpleasant, if not injurious, how shall we endure it when the winter forces us to keep the windows closed...