Word: wronged
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their actions that they think I am the guilty one. I felt so bad after reading the article in this month's Miscellany that I just went to my room and had a real good cry. Really and truly, dear HERALD, I didn't think I was doing anything wrong when I wrote to you that way. You can imagine how I felt when I heard Daisy Randall say in a crowd (and she was looking at me just as hard as ever she could) that it was the "freshest" thing she ever heard of. But I must tell...
When the announcement was made some time ago that steps should be taken to get up a new college song book, every one seemed so pleased with the project that we entertained no fear of its success, but lately it has been shown that the impression was wrong, although two meetings of the committee appointed have been held; at neither, was it possible to take any action in the matter, from the fact that not a sufficient number of the committee were present. The book proposed is certainly something that is desirable, and even needed, and we trust that enough...
...reply as well nigh to appall us. Nevertheless, we are willing to accept the statistics with a good grace, and yet not recede from the essential point of our thesis. We instanced Oberlin as an example of such a Western college; in this, perhaps, we do a partial wrong. On the plain ground of requirements and of subjects prescribed for freshman recitations, the statement could by no means justly apply to her course. But, in as far as relates to standards of thoroughness of preparation and amount of general intelligence given by the Eastern preparatory schools, which supply a large...
...first peculiarity will certainly be appreciated by every Harvard student; if there is anything we do not believe in, it is bigotry. There are some practices that all conscientious men believe to be wrong, but in regard to drinking, perfectly upright men may differ. The friends of the society believe that total abstinence is on the whole the best practice; but they respect the views of those who conscientiously differ, and wish it to be distinctly understood that they have no sympathy whatever with those who ground their belief in total abstinence upon anything but common-sense...
...Inquirer." - No, your derivation is wrong. Curriculum is from Curro, to run; said of a place where ponies are exercised, and hence of a college course...