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...signed his first literary composition '-'Aeon." The printer could not read his handwriting, set up only the initial diphthong. The error pleased the author, who signed his subsequent work thus...
Thirty-nine men reported to Coach H. S. Ulen yesterday afternoon at the season's first call for candidates for the first swimming team to carry Harvard's colors since 1922. Due to an error in the announcement of the meeting, many aspirants failed to appear; so a second gathering will be held today at 3 o'clock in the special exercise room of the Indoor Athletic Building, where all undergraduates, Freshmen as well as upperclassmen may register...
Sirs: TIME is a great magazine, but mere greatness is no warranty against error or poor judgment. Even this peaceful village of New York Mills has been stirred to excitement by what you said in column 3, p. 21, Sept. 8 issue. "Fin-land, whence come house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid." What do you know about Finns? Send a correspondent to New York Mills, located within the second largest Finn settlement in America; a section 30 by 60 mi., where 23,000 Finns reside. In New York Mills is published the oldest...
...interest more young men in politics, not necessarily the quest for public office, for most young men can ill afford to make this sacrifice, but politics in its more accurate sense, meaning the science and problems of government. At least I hope that you will not fall into the error, unfortunately all too prevalent among people otherwise intelligent, of regarding all men who are in politics with suspicion. As in all other occupations, there are good, bad and in-different men in public life, and the calibre of the representative depends to a large extent upon the interest and intelligence...
...minds. There is certainly room for more than a little doubt in answering this problem. Some of the House masters, either through an exaggerated conception of the importance of their own position or through a false interpretation of the scheme in general seem in danger of falling into the error of trying to force the benefits of the plan as they see them down the throats of the unsuspecting students. Excessive attachment for the English system of education and a feeling that it is definitely superior to that in force at Harvard, for example, is leading some of the masters...