Word: incorrectly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...touch with men in the Department" which was never intended, and assumes that the tutor in question uses this phrase as a "misleading advertising device." I wish to state, therefore, in justice to myself, my assistant, and the men who tutor with me, that both interpretation and assumption are incorrect, and, it seems, to me, uncharitable. Perhaps your correspondent will recognize that he formed his conclusions hastily and ill-advisedly when I state that the phrase "in close touch" means, and has been interpreted, so far as I know, to mean, that my assistant is intimately acquainted with...
...statement printed in yesterday's CRIMSON to the effect that the Harvard Yacht Club had received a challenge from Yale was incorrect. The Harvard club has sent a preliminary note to the Yale club, suggesting that a race be arranged, if possible, between two fifteen-to-twenty-footers. No reply to this letter has been received...
...wages of the individual laborers was ascertained without any accompanying record of the number of men and women receiving particular wages. The work of Dr. Bodio in compiling Italian statistics of labor twelve years ago, though considered valuable at that time, is now entirely discredited on account of his incorrect method of classification. The great development in the treatment of wages statistics has come from this side of the water. Entering upon a field new and unexplored, the American statistician gradually evolved the system of individual classification with the concentration method. For this method there is a classification of weekly...