Word: correcting
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...discovery that your publication is not particularly interested in getting the facts correct, has in no way lessened the enjoyment which we take in reading TIME. We do not, however, leave your publication lying about our rooms for the inspection of our English friends as their criticisms would force us to the admission either that American magazines are not so good as the English, or that TIME is not a good magazine as American magazines go. Both alternatives would be equally distasteful, and we therefore amuse ourselves with your magazine in private...
Referring to your report about the Eucharistic Congress recently held at Carthage and the very interesting resume of the history of that ancient city (TIME, p. 26, May 19), permit me to correct the quotation ascribed to the Roman senator Marcus Porcius Cato. The phrase as given "Delenda est Carthago" might have been used by Scipio Africanus when reporting the destruction of Carthage (however, he would not have used the "th" in the Latin name of that city...
...Correct Latin though scholarly Subscriber Andrae's version is, the version actually used by Cato, and accurately quoted by TIME, is also correct Latin. Let Subscriber Andrae consult his Allen & Greenough's, or any other standard Latin grammar, anent the gerundive construction...
...instruction of men taking them, especially that received in such college courses as German A, 1a, 1b, 1c, and the corresponding French courses, is deficient. Statistics regarding a recent Reading German examination, compiled by a member of the German Department, are evidence that neither of these beliefs is correct. Out of thirty-eight men who took the examination, only fourteen passed; all fourteen were qualified by their work in the courses which now satisfy the requirement in Reading German, to expect a passing mark. Of the remainder, not more than two had done in courses work of such quality that...
...advocated that bibs, tuckers, rattles, and other appurtenances of infancy are suitable for Harvard men. From the press printed elsewhere in this column, it might even be conjectured that this laudable perseverance apparently directed to benefit the student springs, in reality, from bitterly ironic inkwells. If this hypothesis is correct, such a consistently unsympathetic attitude is crushing and borders dangerously on infanticide...