Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...place in their present use. Jones is made to win the Victoria Cross, the Order of the Golden Fleece, and the Pasteur Medal, all in the Civil War. The introduction of farce mars the illusion. "The Man with the Soul" is an amusing story of a misunderstood undergraduate, a recluse with a sense of humor. Invited by two more experienced friends to an excursion to Darker Boston, he mystifies his companions by a very well done dry-drunk, to use the language of a generation...
Edward Eagle Brown, of Chicago, III., who will speak on "A Misunderstood Party," prepared at the Chicago Manual Training School. In his Junior year he won a Harvard College scholarship...
Bollard, as undergraduate secretary of the executive committee, stated that it was the belief of those inaugurating the action outlined above, that what is commonly termed foreign missions is little known and greatly misunderstood; that they believe foreign missions may be, and therefore ought to be, one of the strongest agencies for good...
...Brockman said China is the most misunderstood nation in the world. The Chinese are a masterful race. They have a literature considered by some thinkers to be not second to that of Greece, an educational system which is in some respects--notably in the education of public officials by the state--a model for others, and a religion which until the last three of four years has seemed an impregnable fortress. Since the Boxer war, however, the attitude of the literati has rapidly changed from hostility to interest and confidence in occidentals and their civilization. The Chinese are looking...
...more practical objections, some of us feel that the tendency to make the public more and more an item of first consideration in University exercises is doing us all a good deal of harm. The public might misunderstand the spirit of our fellowship as thoroughly as they have misunderstood the spirit of our sport...