Word: error
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...does not the Latin department fall into error in considering apathy, in any direction, justifiable. Is there not danger of its awakening some day to the discomforting realization that, in popular favor, at least, Greek has outstripped it, and that, where it formerly held its head proudly in the first place, it must now be contented with a sorry second...
...with, something to pity, something to love. Many a time It shudders over the fearful blunders which cause a life-time's regret that might be averted with but a single word from It. Often It sees two lives that might make one, gradually becoming estranged through trifling, thoughtless error. Then, indeed, It forces open its cold lips to shriek the needed warning. Alas! how vain such efforts are! Have you not, on some winter night, when you were rushing along through the driving snow, been startled by a low, mournful wail? Have you not felt inclined to stop...
...just what to expect for any breach of observance of College discipline, but now he is left in suspense. We are reminded, too, that in the world outside, the common experience of many generations has shunned giving absolute power to officers of the law, for fear of abuse or error, so that a judge is always limited by statute in the rigor of the sentence he may impose...
...single desk, and we have to take notes as well as we can with our hands full of books. If the authorities have knowingly sanctioned such an arrangement as this, they deserve unqualified censure; and if they have done it through oversight, they should hasten to correct the error. For if now, when we can have the windows open, the air is extremely unpleasant, if not injurious, how shall we endure it when the winter forces us to keep the windows closed...
...hundred members of their college, while a large audience of ladies and graduates appeared to support the Crimson. The game was won in the first innings. Yale went to the bat. Parker drove a long fly to centre field, which Nichols captured. Lamb got first by Richardson's error, and took second as Folsom balked. Hutchinson hit safely to right, sending Lamb to third, Walden bringing him and Hutchinson home on a single. Camp was fielded out by Richardson to Shattuck, and Nichols caught Hopkins...