Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...consider a grave one is in the method of training commonly followed. In nearly all American colleges one of the methods of training oarsmen is to run them from one to five miles per day in the hope of thus increasing their staying powers. This I believe to be wrong, for assuredly if a man was training for a running race, he would not practice throwing the hammer. To my mind the only desirable training for a race is to work at the oars or weights...
...course of an editorial on the recent troubles at Princeton the Prencetonian says: "It is both right and natural that students should co-operate with the faculty in the suppression of wrong practices; but it could not be expected they should feel like supporting a decimating policy. Nevertheless even so generous a feeling as sympathy should not be allowed to warp opinion, and while we all feel sympathy for those who have suffered for the errors into which customs already existing have led them, we should not allow anything to supplant our honest judgment on the question of hazing...
...does not swing back too far. 2: a strong man; rows pretty well; over-reaches somewhat and fizzles a little on the finish; his chief fault is that he does not pay attention to time or to the boat. 3: very hard worker, but gets in work at the wrong time; does not get weight on to his stretcher until half through his stroke; has bad jerk at finish; slumps badly at finish, and swings back too far; covers his blade well at the beginning. 4: works hard, and is getting a good deal of work out of the crew...
...understanding with the photographer was that every member of the class could sit until his negative was entirely satisfactory. If anyone failed to avail himself of this opportunity, whose fault was it? In regard to the groups, the gentleman who claims to represent the class of '85 is entirely wrong. The contract with Mr. Notman includes the class groups, according to the regular custom. Many of these groups have already been taken, and have been accepted as satisfactory by the societies interested. Most of the societies named in the communication are not included in the class work, and with them...
...whole book is one of fresh, effective scepticism, for the sake of a speculative notion which will mean next to nothing to average minds, leaving the result of the book purely sceptical, and to minds inclined to fasten on the notion will mean that actions are indifferent, however wrong because they are all in the Infinite Thought. If this is Harvard teaching as to the bases of conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science of agnostic doubt, is in the ascendant, and that Harvard has the greatest problem of her history to solve, how to reconcile...