Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...glad to do all in our power to advance the cause of good feeling between colleges, and when Harvard is in the wrong we will say so honestly and fearlessly, but when cheering descends into yelling, no matter by whom it is done, we shall consider it our duty to proclaim such conduct "muckerish" and unworthy an intercollegiate athletic contest...
...commission, the bill became a law. Professor Hrdley then stated and discussed the most important clauses of the bill. There are: I - The provision against personal discrimination, which he characterized as very just. The fact is that where discrimination is made between two shippers it is usually the wrong one that gets the advantage. II. - The long and short haul clause, whose justice in theory he was willing to allow. There is, however, this much to be said against it, that the business of the country has distributed itself in accordance with the old discriminating rates. Men would plant factories...
...imprudent and unscrupulous liberty; if it be the work of a student, which we sincerely trust it is not, we blush with shame to think that one of our number can be guilty of an act so small, so utterly beneath contempt, and, worse than all, so morally wrong. The writer of the signature may have thought that he was perpetrating a huge joke in thus attempting to deceive whoever might look over the register; but a short residence among us would soon teach him that such an act is not funny; it is fresh...
...friends may consider his case to be, has been recently illustrated by the very events which indirectly led to the complication of a court trial, and the student whose testimony figured somewhat in the late trial was exempt from criticism by those who are usually disposed to shield wrong doing at all hazards, only because of his uniformly courteous bearing towards his fellow students, the high respect which his general course in college has gained for him, and because his testimony was not volunteered, but was given in the course of ordinary conversation at the table...
...Chapel. The sermon was upon the death of spiritual life. Many men who have come to a low degree of righteousness are characterized by bestiality and all the lower forms of vice, but there is a still larger class who have lost all power to distinguish between right and wrong in matters that are considered generally of very little moment; but this insensibility to spiritual things is fully as bad as is that which is popularly called vice...