Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...response to your editorial relating to the Speakers' Club. I should like to explain the aims and present policy of that organization, both of which have evidently been misunderstood...
Rutherford B. Hayes was a quiet, unobtrusive man, who has been greatly misunderstood. While President Garfield was dying at Elberon, Mr. Wise went to Mr. Arthur's house to tell him of the President's condition. He was a man of great ability, with a thorough knowledge of the duties of this office. Grover Cleveland was a Democrat whose power lay in his conservatism. Whatever he did, he took the consequences for. Mr. Harrison, who was our next President, was a clear-minded, clever lawyer, but narrow and bigoted in religious matters. Mr. Wise first met William McKinley in Congress...
Today the undergraduate petition goes to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It is not a defiance, not even an opposition; merely a dignified expression of opinion and a request. We trust that it will not be misunderstood. It bears to the Faculty an organized expression of prevailing undergraduate sentiment, and asks that the students' wishes be not disregarded, but that in the ultimate solution of the difficulty they may be met at least halfway. We must now await quietly the outcome of our efforts...
...hour on Monday and Tuesday, as everyone knows, there was an outburst of splendid enthusiasm in support of the team. It is an especially fine thing on the part of the fellows under the present circumstances. But there are a number of men in the Hall who either apparently misunderstood this manifestation of loyalty, or who are unable to appreciate it, and see only an excuse to "rough-house," hammering dishes and trays, and throwing articles of food to such an extent that the Hall looked as though it had been the scene of a riot. Not only is this...
Monday night's demonstration in the Majestic Theatre, which appears to have been so entirely misunderstood by the newspapers, calls for some expression on behalf of the undergraduates who were there...