Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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That a few men should have elected to break away from their dormitory affiliations and set up a crew of their own is evidence of a certain petty exclusiveness which crops up every once in a while in some branch of undergraduate activity. Surely there was nothing morally wrong about the incident at the boathouse, nor does it in itself deserve the recognition that its discussion necessitates. Athletics are, in their very nature an influence for democracy in the University, and for that very reason the cropping up of the suggestion of a clique there was unexpected. Harvard College...
...hundred undergraduates--most of whom were not Socialists--signed a petition urging that a course on Socialism be given at Harvard. This seems to indicate a general wish that an opportunity should be given to learn in a systematic way what the principles of Socialism are. Whether right or wrong, Socialism is one of the most significant movements of today and one worthy of careful study under University auspices...
...proper communications. The honor system may work better than inefficient proctoring as a discourager of cribbing; but if it is to be compared with efficient proctoring it cannot supply the element of guaranty, unless it involves the systematic spying of students upon each other and the subsequent prosecution of wrong-doers. As in the case of crime in general a surveillance which may be an honorable function when performed by the appointed agents of society is repugnant to the ordinary citizen, so fellow-students would naturally prefer to leave the detection and punishment of cribbing to the appointed authorities...
...colleges, at least, the honor system encourages the view that such a signature is more binding than writing the name at the head of the paper. To stop cheating by making it unconventional, a sort of infraction of good fellowship, precisely misses the point, which is that cheating is wrong because it is wrong and not because it is either conventional or unconventional. A good illustration of the failure to see this point was afforded in a certain college that had lately adopted the honor system, when a prominent undergraduate innocently asked the President when the new system...
...Crystal Gazer" comes up to this standard; it has possibly more plot than the average; one can actually keep it in sight except at two points--one in the first act, when Ozab recommends the wrong suitor, and the other his too sudden unmasking at the end. The characters are sufficiently well conceived, although the figure of the social aspirant has been overdone of late; and the actors fit the parts--or rather the parts the actors better than is often the case. Mr. Savery may then be congratulated. The music is more than gay; it is melodious and skilfully...