Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many of us at times have opposed President Lowell, have considered such and such a policy mistaken. Such occasions will probably occur again. But opposition at scattered points is inevitable where strength, conviction and vision are qualities of a man in a responsible and outstanding position. There has been, so far as we know, nothing but pride in the general outlines of his building, in the strength and lasting quality of achievements like the tutorial and concentration system and his handling of the admission requirements. Harvard has been indeed fortunate to have been guided in succession by two such Presidents...
...went on to state that he secured for me a diplomatic passport in the name of one Ernest Lindstrom, Counselor of the Ministry. Another Finnish diplomat, named Lindblom, had just died, but few knew it, and Dr. Hjelf, saying he knew the passport name of Lindstrom would certainly be mistaken for Lindblom, calmly relates that he dressed me in business suit, felt hat, colored glasses, to look like Lindblom, and that I shaved my mustache to facilitate the transformation. Thus attired I am reported to have motored to the border in a diplomatic car, and to have expressed pleasure...
...distinguished visiting educators of last week were hoping to hear things of good repute about the ministry, they were partially mistaken: "The intellectual level of the ministry of our American churches is pathetically low. Recent controversies could hardly have arisen had our pulpits beer filled with men abreast of current thought and seriously teaching then people. The number of college professors and leaders in the professions who show no interest ir the Church is an alarming sign of the inability of our clergy to grip the minds and stir the imaginations of many of our educated people. A rift between...
...athletic victories, further I contend that Princeton could not allow her devotion to scholarship to be subordinated to externals of habit, dress, and thought. I know Harvard men well enough to say that they are gentlemen and are opposed to discourtesy whether in the form of conceit or mistaken loyalty. In other words I believe that the present friction is the result of misunderstanding, misrepresentation and prejudice...
...hand, manuscript said to be the most valuable in the world. He owns the original manuscript of the autobiography of Benjamin Franklin "from the ink splash on page 71, to the day before his death." In 1911 he paid a million dollars for three Gainsboroughs. His Gutenberg Bible (often mistaken for the famed copy from the library of Cardinal Mazarin*) is worth $50,000; he has on his shelf the first edition of Venus and Adonis, the oldest existing edition of any work by Shakespeare. He has, in short, the most valuable collection of first editions in the world...