Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...informal" system as originally practised by Yale, Harvard and Princeton, though well meant, has been widely censured as not furnishing the necessary incentive for athletics. For then University to "about-face" now, acknowledge that she was wrong and begin anew, will be no disgrace. It is the only logical step open...
...know German are a military necessity now and will be of great benefit to the nation in the years after war. North Dakota, however, is carried away by hate to destroy what is more an advantage than a hindrance. Opposition to the Hun is turned in the wrong direction when it checks reasonable education and changes culture to Kultur...
...Sargent, director of physical education at the University, created a sensation at the annual meeting of the Athletic Research Society at the Hotel Astor, New York, on December 27, when he declared that for the past 25 years both Harvard and Yale have conducted their athletic training along the wrong lines. He said that he was proud of the athletes who have been sent into the Army, but that he was not proud of many more who have been sent but who are not physically fit, giving as the reason for this the fact that the colleges have had athletics...
...physically fit. I cannot look back at the record made at Harvard and at Yale, with both of which institutions I am familiar, being a graduate of one and officially connected with the other, without feeling that for 25 years our athletic training has been on the wrong track. But I am glad to say that we are seeing the light and that we are coming around...
...when we hear of "the star which they saw in the East"; and catch from the mother of the wisp that ever-beautiful sentiment, "God bless you, Mr. Campbell. My dead husband once worked for you, and he said you were a hard man. But he surely was wrong." And all this time, "Somehow his heart seemed very light and young within him." We can stand a story like this every Christmas, we can. Our fathers did; and their fathers did before them...