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...writing to tell you that this statement in regard to the school's loss is an error. We suffered a loss of more than $300,000, but the insurance . . . was only about 10% of the . . . loss. We carried $25,000 insurance on the building . . . $9,500 on the contents...
...conditions, when we must go to our friends and the public for financial support in order to rebuild Main Hall; it is a serious matter to us to give out the impression that our loss is entirely covered by insurance. May I ask, therefore, that you kindly correct this error in your next issue? If you will oblige us by granting this request and place your correction in a prominent position in your magazine so that it will be noticed and read by most of your readers we shall greatly appreciate it and in the meantime I beg to remain...
...error. Calvin Coolidge became a member of the college fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta at Amherst College. His Secretary should have said that he is not a Mason, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Woodman...
With Justice McKinney dissenting, Justices Chambliss and Cook and Chief Justice Green decided that the anti-evolution statute was constitutionally sound. All four were unanimous that Teacher Scopes was not guilty, as declared by the jury at Dayton, since the trial judge (John T. Raulston) had been in error in fining Teacher Scopes $100 (only a jury can impose a fine greater than $50 in Tennessee and the Scopes jury fixed no fine) ; that the only way to correct this error was through a retrial; but that "all of us agree that nothing is to be gained by prolonging...
...single type of writing, say fiction, verse, or political discussion or that he is of a characteristic turn of mind and will find anything philosophical or else colorful or perhaps sententious, eminently to his taste. It will at once be recognized that each of these suppositions compounds truth and error. Yet one or another of them may be most nearly right. To find such a course and to pursue with some moderate degree of consistency seems the way to make the BOOKSHELF most characteristic and serviceable...