Word: oversight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This unfortunate oversight was corrected the following day as you will note by reading the enclosed clipping from the Times of a verbatim report of a portion of the testimony...
...retort (a letter-to-the-Tzwes reprinted and featured by Hearstpapers last week) Mr. Lloyd George accused the Times of "garbling"' his eight-year-old words. Said he: "After I called your attention to these perversions of the truth, instead of apologizing like gentlemen for your oversight, you indulged in spite-silly sneers at my efforts to earn a living from journalism. Not even inveterate personal rancor, of which you have given innumerable proofs, can justify such methods. "You always refer with the curled lip of assumed superiority to the Hirst [sic] press, edited...
...charge too little of the virtue of generosity. But the neglect to treat all of the members of the press equally, has seemed to be deliberate; if that is so, it should be remedied. If the neglect of accredited members of the metropolitan journalistic family has been an oversight, that, too, may be remedied by using the official publicity department of the University...
...first criticism is, for the most part, just, and was an unfortunate oversight. However, so little interest is taken in elections in general at Harvard that I believe that very few would even try to "stuff the ballot boxes", and a good many signed their ballots regardless...
Through an oversight the names of the five present members of the Student Council from the Junior Class were omitted from the ballots now being filled out for the election. As a result, the five men, three of whom were the first elected to the Council from their class, will not be members of next year's Council. Since three men will be appointed at the first meeting of the newly elected board, some of these men may serve by appointment...