Word: incorrectness
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...needed to do his own work. In other words, it was the extra playing which he could contribute for the assistance of his neighbors, beyond what was required to cover his own position. The definition was valuable for its suggestive quality, but to my thinking it is strictly incorrect, and it illustrates the individualistic tendency which has always shown itself in Harvard football...
...appear to be in a position to apply the unwritten standards of the English universities, which consider faulty expression a breach of decency. We must, therefore, find some mechanical means for checking the continued use of incorrect English. The system, in vogue in some other colleges, whereby a man who consistently uses poor English in his reports and theses is remanded to an elementary course in composition which does not count for a degree, offers a practicable and, on the whole, an effective solution...