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...gross error. Martyr Nicholas Ridley was ignited in his fifty-fifth year...
...right in the game, with the score tied at 4-all. L. J. Young '23 up to this time had engaged Howard Whitmore '29, favored to start the first Yale game, on even terms until he was relieved by Wilmot Whitney '16, off whom the undergraduates, aided by an error and two base-on-balls, scored the winning brace of runs...
Throughout the war Lincoln danced from one position to another. Want of space prevents the mention of but two notorious instances of his instability. He decided to issue a proclamation of emancipation in July, 1863, but when Seward showed him its impropriety at the time, he admitted his error, pocketed his paper and for months later talked on both sides of the question. He at first decided to write a paper justifying the action of Captain Wilkes in seizing the Confederate Commissioners from the British steam packet Trent, but shortly joined with his Cabinet in making a humiliating apology...
...ought to take the chance courageously for the sake of the great good. Unpleasant incidents are bound to happen, but they are part of the price we must be prepared to pay for what I am sure student editors will ultimately accomplish: the development by the trial and error method of sound and acceptable journalistic standards
Should a reapportionment of seats be made on the basis of the 1920 census without increasing the House membership above its present, cumbersome 435, the following States would lose seats: Missouri, 2; Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Mississippi, Nebraska, one each. That is the 2.75% error. Should the estimated census of 1930 be used, 23 seats would be involved, or 5.3% of 435. Losses then would be: Missouri, 3; Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, two each; Alabama, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, one each...