Word: errors
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...score of 15 to 5. Thayer and Owen singled and Bancroft was passed, filling the bases. Lee doubled and brought in two men, making the score 7 to 5. After fanning Eddy, Case, the Eli pitcher, went wild, passed one man and hit another, again filling the bases. An error by the Yale shortstop let in two more runs. On the next play, Withington was forced at the plate. Thayer and Owen again hit safely but were left on bases, when Bancroft struck...
...days ago somebody prepared a message for telegraphing to Washington-to which President Lowell's signature was obtained-beginning: "In eighteen sixty-one, Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln joined to prevent war between England and America over the Trent affair." In the Herald, through a typographical error, the word "one" came out "our", so that it read: "In eighteen sixty our Queen Victoria and Abraham Lincoln," etc. But how any person of ordinary intelligence could suppose that the writer of any such message would put the possessive pronoun before the British Queen and omit it from Abraham Lincoln passes understanding...
...McSweeney is further not quite clear as to what the historical error was. He devotes some time to proving that there were hostile feelings between the United States and Great Britain before the Civil War. This is, of course, true, and obviously consistent with the telegram...
...third, where they were left, and the Freshmen in every inning except one got men on the bases but was unable to hit in the pinches. The fielding of 1923 was, however. much superior to that shown in the game Wednesday with the Dartmouth Freshmen, only one error being committed...
...Evening up the decision" is a phrase used in baseball when the umpire makes a bad judgment on a certain play, and, shortly afterward, realizing his error, gives an equally bad decision on a close play for the opposing team. A week or so ago President Eliot saw fit to criticize the United States Military Academy at West Point, and this week feeling perhaps that he should have begun at home accuses the Harvard students of being "Woozy." The CRIMSON and the University have always had the utmost respect for President Eliot, who, by his actions and words has ever...