Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Still more careless are such statements as that five crews were engaged in last year's boat race, that J. W. Hallowell 1901, played guard on his freshman eleven, that there are two deans of the Law School. Such a blunder as the substitution of three of the Weld crews for the corresponding class crews in the summary of the class races is absolutely unpardonable. Mistakes like these and the omission of the catalogue by buildings rob the Index of fully half its value...
...battle of Bunker Hill an "absurd blunder" from the American point of view...
There are many methods of teaching religious truth to the mass of ignorant people all over the world. That employed by the western world during the last century has been wrong in several respects. Its most grevious blunder is that it offers dogmatic terms of salvation to unbelievers, and proceeds upon the basis that all men are conceived in sin. The religion of India, on the other hand, is built upon the foundation of of good and truth in every man. This kind of missionary work, if it were universal, could not fail of success...
...chambers, etc. The arrangement is extremely disagreeable for both parties; I can speak for the students from personal experience. That a new building for bachelor apartments should have been constructed at this day and in this place upon such a plan shows that even the best-intentioned people will blunder...
While members of the Glee Club, gathered on the steps of Holworthy, were singing in the early part of last evening, they were directed to stop by the policeman of the yard. We can look upon this only as an unintentional blunder. Singing by the Glee Club in this way has been allowed year after year, and no one has ever before raised any objection. Quite to the contrary, the singing is felt by all to be one of the pleasantest features of the closing days of the college year, and most fitting for a club of students. Of course...