Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Boston Bicycle Club still continues to hold its weekly meets, and interest in the sport seems steadily on the increase, especially as an American firm is now making machines of as good quality as the English at less than half the cost. In this connection we wish to correct an error which appeared in our last issue. It was there stated that after arriving at Squantum the Boston club returned home by rail. We are glad to learn that the club completed the entire journey on their machines, thus proving that their endurance and energy are equal to their skill...
...cent bore at the mid year. The man with seven mistakes gets 97%, and the man with twelve gets 92%. Thus the first man loses only 1% for each three mistakes, while the others lose 1% for each mistake over six. This statement is nearly if not exactly correct, and is as clear as it can be made...
...these derivations are etymologically correct is more than I can say; perhaps some of our English-dressed swells can throw some additional light on the matter...
...will be placed a list of the present and past members of the Class of '78, together with the societies, clubs, and associations to which each member belonged during his Senior year; also the Commencement and Class Day programmes. No pains will be spared to make these lists absolutely correct, and as the book itself has now been thoroughly corrected, we shall have in the next edition as complete and accurate a guide to the College and to Cambridge as it is possible to make. The price of the new book will be one dollar and a half, and they...
...lack of space prevented us from commenting on the letter from Cambridge, Mass., to a New York daily quoted in this column. The correspondent from Cambridge entirely misunderstood Captain Bancroft when he wrote that "Harvard feels badly because Oxford has not challenged her rather than Columbia." We wish to correct this statement, which places us in a false position. No such feeling prevails at Harvard either among the men of the crew or among the students...