Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brooks occupied the chapel last evening. His sermon treated of the discontents and mistakes of the misunderstood man and the means of escape from discontent which lie within the power of such a man. Mr. G. Frank Monroe, the tenor, was the soloist. Dr. Brooks will conduct prayers during the week...
...publish to day an editorial from the Yale News on the speech recently made by Mr. Beecher on "fighting the referee." The News declares that the speech has been misunderstood, and that on consideration it has appeared that nothing which would put Yale in a bad light was intended, only a reminder that perhaps the eleven would be compelled to play with a hostile referee, and in that case it would be necessary to fight him. The event proved that these fears were ungrounded, consequently the desperate expedient was not resorted...
...misrepresentations of contemporaries, or the imaginations of succeeding ages, give such a distorted picture as to make impossible any just conception of the man. Sometimes a character, whose representations are thus distorted, becomes his own vindicator. Perhaps no great man in the world's history has been more completely misunderstood than Sardanapalus. But we may now judge him according to his works, a thing which before our day was impossible. By excavations in the ruins of mineveh, the library of Sardanapalus has been recovered, and by the brilliant studies of English and German scholars, the contents of that library have...
...have been requested by the Secretary to state that there are no printed lists of History topics at the office in U. 5. Several men have evidently misunderstood the notice in a recent issue of the CRIMSON...
...truth, much of that democratic spirit which we are prone to attribute to our own day. The guilds, the monasteries, and the orders of the templars were voluntary associations, and have their counterpart in many of our organizations of to-day. The word University is often missed or misunderstood. The latin Universitas means nothing more than corporation. Universities are but corporations. There was not any necessary assemblage of brain or wit in one place in order to form an University...