Word: blundered
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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...
...motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement in his own bodily economy that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful into what a fairyland of agreeable and even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath of a pain in the stomach or a fall from his horse. Montaigne more than any other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays is a kind of web wherein to entangle every winged thing (of the smaller...
...lesson by its steady loyalty to the team even after the realization that a mistake was being made in the handling of the men. The defeat must have emphasized the same lesson upon the foot ball men and our graduate advisors. So it is safe to say that the blunder of this year cannot be repeated. The thing to do now is to go forward united and stronger than ever to the victory which we can and will win next fall...