Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...lesson of Stevenson's life," he said, "is that it is a fine thing to be brave." Professor Van Dyke, in speaking of the precision in the choice of words which is to manifest in all of Stevenson's works, said: "The willingness to be satisfied with the wrong word, the wrong color, is the sign of an inferior author. A brilliant writer is the last one who can afford to be false or fatuous." He read several extracts from different works of Stevenson, including the dueling scene between the brothers in "The Master of Ballantrae," and characterized Stevenson...
...traitors of history. The country needs strong young men who will give richly of their money, their time and their strength. The dangers of a democracy are of little account when such men rally to the support of the nation: when corruption is brought to light, when wrong is punished. Mr. Guild closed his address by strongly affirming his faith in the people of this country, who are yearly growing better and higher in ideals...
...article in yesterday's CRIMSON on the formation of a polo team gave a wrong impression. The few undergraduates, who are playing polo three times a week at the Myopia Country Club, are playing as members of that club, and not as representatives of the University. Probably no University polo team will be formed. No regular challenge has been sent to Yale, as the men playing polo there are, for the most part, graduates...
...policy, furthermore, will teach them that they cannot in their wrong-doing hide behind the shield of the Mon- roe Doctrine; that we will not protect them in the unjust repudiation of honest obligations. Let them once lose part of their territory as a result of their own wrongdoing and they will soon eradicate the evils from which the loss arose. Any policy which allows the debt to remain unpaid after the day set for payment, would mean nullification of the award of the Hague tribunal. Not only, then, will our policy do justice to European countries, but also will...
...several of the squads the men as signed have reported irregularly and at the wrong hours. This has been particularly noticeable in the University and second team squads, in which, furthermore the playing has been very careless. The work of the Freshman squad, in the two days work, has been good...