Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exercises may be applied. It should not be used as a device for finding out what a student knows, or does not know, with the object of inflicting a penalty to the deficient. Were the examination used in the light of showing the students his weaknesses, that he might correct them, cramming would cease. Since in our own college some instructors hold this very view and have seen it worked out successfully, it cannot be tagged "just theory" and laid aside. Normal School News
...have read two articles in the CRIMSON, that Mr. Danguy has resigned his position as Fencing Master at Harvard College. That is not correct; Mr. William J. Bingham, Director of the Athletic Association told me that Dr. Paul H. Means said that after my illness I would not be able to continue my fencing instruction next season. In the CRIMSON dated June the 8th it stated I had been a teacher at Harvard for 8 years, which is a mistake; my first agreement was made Oct. 1st, 1919, which would make it 10 years; I had the honor with...
...footnote was Letter-Writer O'Brien's, not TIME'S. And it was correct, not "hooey." "Dog-robbers" were called "strikers" often enough to get into Webster's Dictionary under "striker." U. S. Army officers were forbidden to use enlisted men as servants by Act of Congress July...
...have read your magazine from cover to cover and I was a great deal surprised when I came across (in the May 20 issue) my uncle's picture, Homer Guck. You stated that his name was pronounced "Guke," allow me to correct you, it is spelt Guck as in book...
...would appreciate it very much if you can correct this error for the reason that the Department of Commerce Building is the largest of the group of buildings and the stone contract is the largest stone contract ever...