Word: blunder
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wish to see hustling but efficient activity, spend a few minutes during a game behind the score-board. Each man has a certain thing to do, a certain part of the board to adjust. If he does the work of anyone else he has committed an unpardonable blunder. And, above all, no deviation from the orders given by Mr. Belliveau is tolerated, no matter how obviously wrong they may be. It is only by strict observance of these rules, experience has shown, that the progress and accuracy of the game can be shown on the board. The moves which...
...three of these gentlemen seem to be making the same serious blunder. Apparently they all consider the terms "militarism" and "universal military training" as synonymous. Because the former is deservedly odious and vicious, they conclude that the latter is odious...
...purchase of property between the Avenue and Charles River is a further step toward making Cambridge fit for human habitation. Days may dawn when, in spite of abattoir, trolleys and funeral processions, Harvard will breathe a sense of academic labor and repose. We must not fall into the national blunder of making a desert of empty buildings and calling it scholastic peace, but even such misuse of money would be wiser than the increasing of instructors' salaries...
...commission they are entitled to be used either for further training, or with troops. Such was the promise when they went into camp, and the Government owes it to them as well as to its own self-respect, to keep that promise. It would also be a military blunder to send half the graduates home, have them break training, and subject them to the humiliation of being dependents upon their families when many of them have hitherto be help in to support their families. Officers of the general staff, divisional commanders, and the commandants of the training camps are almost...
Many of us have been awaiting, with considerable interest, the first public appearance of the Regimental Band in connection with any event other than a Regimental affair. Those interested in the musical activities of the college are inclined to be unusually charitable toward an admirable institution, which may blunder through no fault other than its youth; but members of the older musical organizations cannot help feeling that the playing of "Fair Harvard" in mutilated rag-time, as it was rendered at the meet Saturday, is, at best, an extraordinary violation of good taste in the light of Harvard tradition...