Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...correct stroke were known to him. Finally I expressed the hope that Harvard would be badly beaten in the annual race for a series of years, believing that nothing short of this. would bring her to her senses. Now it appears that she is persuaded that something has been wrong, for we hear mention of a new stroke. Perhaps we may get it, but I doubt very much if it will be the stroke, for there is only one. Harvard's faults, or rather her complete ignorance of what the best stroke is, has become a transmittendum. The coach...
...inclined to enroll myself among those who think that an undue prominence is given to the muscular, as compared with the intellectual, in our universities. Assuming, however, for the present, that they are wrong, and that a "stroke oar" is a more enviable man than a "summa cum laude," let us examine the question on the principle that what is worth doing at all is worth doing well...
...immensity of space! I groaned, reeled, and staggered out of the car. A pedantic classmate met me at the door. "O my friend, you have committed the fallacy of composition; having empirically learned that you can carry a beer, a straight, or a Tom and Jerry singly, you do wrong in reasoning that you can carry them together. By Jupiter, you must have imbibed enough to bridge the infernal regions for the space of eight stades," - I fear he meant enough to patch - a mile, but am not certain; "in fact," he continued, "your symmetrical form is in jeopardy...
...WHAT THOU WILT;and I will engage to prove that any action that any one may take a fancy to is at least not wrong according to the glorious doctrine of probabilities, the last apotheosis of this philanthropic system...
There are only two men whom the action can harm, and in so far as it harms them it is wrong (vide Locke). Now, if we can prove that it actually produces more pleasure than pain in the long run, or, in other words, that it produces less harm than good towards these two, we shall be justified in the action...