Word: incorrectly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Between the hours of 9 and 11 any week-day morning the University preachers, who come from various parts of the country to conduct the services in Appleton Chapel, are glad to see men in Wadsworth House. It is incorrect to suppose that only men are welcome who have theological difficulties to be explained or spiritual misgivings to be dispelled. These men need no urging to seek out the help they need. It is to the great mass of students who have never considered the opportunity in Wadsworth that these words are addressed...
...purposely avoid a defence of the CRIMSON'S policies and methods. What is objectionable in the Monthly's attack is its wholesale and biased attitude of muckrake. For instance, we are told editorially that the "English of its stories ... is lax, incorrect, even worse than that of the average daily paper." Although the work is entirely done by untrained undergraduates it is fair to say that its print is clearer, its grammar purer, and its typographical mistakes fewer, than that of almost any daily paper in the country. Indeed through the whole series of Monthly articles...
...needed to do his own work. In other words, it was the extra playing which he could contribute for the assistance of his neighbors, beyond what was required to cover his own position. The definition was valuable for its suggestive quality, but to my thinking it is strictly incorrect, and it illustrates the individualistic tendency which has always shown itself in Harvard football...
...appear to be in a position to apply the unwritten standards of the English universities, which consider faulty expression a breach of decency. We must, therefore, find some mechanical means for checking the continued use of incorrect English. The system, in vogue in some other colleges, whereby a man who consistently uses poor English in his reports and theses is remanded to an elementary course in composition which does not count for a degree, offers a practicable and, on the whole, an effective solution...