Word: mistakenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...contemplation of present-day education, it is well to begin with the assumption--certainly not a mistaken one--that present educational methods are far from perfect. Consequently, any suggestion for improving them deserves consideration, and most especially when it comes from one like President Morgan who has actually experimented with education at Antioch College. President Morgan proposes a six or eight-year course, in which the cultural and professional elements would be blended, instead of the sharp division between these two elements now existing at almost all universities...
...upon the fact that Jesus was extremely well read in Jewish law and mythology--that is, in the old testament. He believed the end of the world was at hand, and that all sinners would be sent to burn in eternal fire if unrepentant. Of course He was mistaken on the first point, and if He was right on the second point, only because it is true in a figurative sense (here we interject a layman opinion.) Jesus was a very real human being, and for that very reason He is the more wonderful. After all, it would not have...
...victims, one was a colored woman and two were white men. Seven were accused of attacks on women. "Other offenses for which lynchings occurred include mistaken identity, aiding in escape, associating with white women, being in an automobile accident, . . . frightening white children...
...right to a salute of nineteen guns, to ride in a coach and six, and to be honored as the dignity and power of his state would be honored, is not inconsistent with democracy. Indeed the American ambassador to St. James who in his simple evening dress was mistaken for a butler and commanded by a haughty European ambassador to "call my coach, sirrah!" would undoubtedly approve of the new policy of adapting American diplomatic manners and practices to the generally accepted standards...
...beauty of the Eastern conception of happiness as a condition of the mind and of the soul with the Western ideal of happiness in external things. "It is the universal view of the West that Western civilization in superior to Eastern. Why cannot people consider the possibility of being mistaken in their attitudes and views, and begin to look at things in a fresh with an open mind for beauty, inspiration...