Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with the scientific department, and he was therefore glad of the opportunity to explain his position and that of the college on the subject. Hellenism, he said, was the most precious motive, after Christianity, in the intellectual life of today, and whoever would remove it would do a great wrong. But the progress of discovery had opened new heavens and earths. Whole sets of new studies has grown into existence, and Harvard was endeavoring to accommodate the old standards of culture to the new conditions. There was no disposition to undervalue Greek and Latin. The only desire was in keeping...
...country is overrun with little "colleges" and "universities" which are not known beyond a radius of ten miles. These give the degree of bachelor of arts to men and women, many of whom have received less of a liberal education than our preparatory schools offer. This is wholly wrong, as this title or degree is apparently of equal value with those given to graduates of the best colleges. It only needs a little investigation to find out how much these are worth; but one has not always the time to take this trouble and must take it for granted that...
Will the gentleman who took the wrong hat at Memorial Friday night call at 18 Grays...
...miscellaneous class of readers; but it is humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot but assume that a student was the guilty person-should not know better than to commit such an act of vandalism. Any marking of books belonging to a library is wrong; but such defacement as this has the additional demerit of being excessively silly...
...would be shown to have been marked by continual discord. This feature has no doubt played a prominent part in bringing about its final collapse, which turned out of doors in the neighborhood of forty students who had paid their money for that which they will never get. This wrong has, however, been somewhat lessened by the American Veterinary College coming to the aid of the students. It magnanimously offered the junior class an asylum by exchanging matriculation tickets. This virtually places that class upon an equal footing with its own students. The senior class has not been so fortunate...