Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...open to considerable discussion. Mr. Lehmann in athletic matters is truly one "whom Harvard men can never forget" but in political matters we also have anti-imperialists who do not stop at such expressions as "unutterable criminality." Yet somehow their phrases don't per se prove the government wrong...
...results of these two years do not by any means prove that the style attempted was wrong. Nevertheless, it seemed safer in '99 to shorten the body swing a little, lengthen the slide, and seat the men lower in the boat, and the same style and rigging have been kept...
Although the element of unfairness in the class football game between the Sophomores and the Freshmen was entirely beyond precedent and likely to undermine class spirit, the officials have decided That their judgement in declaring that the game should be played over, was wrong, since the two classes believed themselves in the right in the tactics they used. The officials feel that a pre. cedent could not be established fairly during the course of a game and have therefore decided that the Sophomore team be decided the winner...
...motives and aims as well as for his acts. What he thinks and purposes works out in his conduct, and his conduct reacts upon his character, while on account of his independence he is alone responsible for the results of his thoughts and acts. The child's wrong-doing is punished by outward penalties, inflicted by others; but the punishment of the man's sin is the inward and silent corruption of his own power of doing right. It is because the man is free to do what he pleases that he is responsible for the effect of his choice...
...Gore Hall Reading Room seems to be open on Sundays at the wrong hours. It is very often the case that men would like to take the opportunity on Sunday to clear up back work, and yet they would not feel justified in using the whole of a day intended for rest, for such a purpose. On one day a week, at the least, it is good for a man to take a certain amount of rest and recreation out in the open air. Now the present hours at the Library Reading Room put a premium on spending Sunday afternoons...