Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...forth by the crusaders. As a system, those sports have many objects, that of school day-recess amusement, not by any means being the only one. The opportunity for and impetus to systematic physical training we regard not as the least of these. Indeed it would not be wrong to consider this their foremost object, if sometimes an object not fully avowed. This element in athletics the Advertiser entirely leaves out of account. "But the growth of the professional spirit has gone," it says, "so far that the idea of playing any game except for the purpose of beating, seems...
...sides to every question and these two sides seem very plain in the case of the Hamilton College seniors. From the published statements it would seem that, not in any respect different from most such cases, both parties, the faculty and the seniors,-are more or less in the wrong. But it is always inadvisable for outsides to attempt to pass any pronounced judgments on such matters, as the means of correct information are always limited. Every college student knows how much his actions are miss-represented and misunderstood by the outside world and, we presume, college faculties experience...
...have authority. If you wish to go to the trustees-it is the highest authority-that court is open to you. The public, as I happen to know, thinks the college to be in a poor way, and the faculty and students both to be bad. Something is essentially wrong. For myself, I say I have never been guilty of supporting a system of espionage. I say our business is to keep order. I said to the tutors, If you see a man going wrong, go to him and tell him so. If that don't help it, come...
...remainder of the year. He also says that hereafter a certain mark will be given for work done in recitation. It is but a few weeks since a like pronunciamento was put forth by another and older instructor in the same department. This seems to us an entirely wrong principle to work on and a highly obnoxious one. To deprive a man of all chance of obtaining a certain mark for his study because he may have once been deficient seems unjust...
...Chapman, '83, thought it to be the general opinion that the faculty is not in the wrong in trying to stem the tide of professionalism in the college; but its present action is inconsistent and impracticable. Most will admit the possibility of an excess of professionalism, Mr. Sexton thought; professionalism and the employment of professionals were different things, however. The one was an evil; the other was not necessarily...