Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Empey seems to be that person we have heard about, but never seen--the man who smiles when everything is going wrong. He has the spirit which does not stop because of handicaps. Although he has witnessed the horrors of war and has had to undergo severe hardships, yet he looks back at Mars, and jokes. The man who can smile at his troubles is always well liked...
...early-Kipling style, of a Prussian captain and the traditional seductive female spy. F. D. Perkins '19, in "The End of a Perfect Day," reproduces in amusing fashion the confused state of mind of one man in the midst of an extensive maneuvre at Camp Azan--"knowing he is wrong, but not knowing how to be right...
...Harvard man. And he has gone wrong. We should be glad that it is regarded as a matter of such astounding interest and universal import by our newspapers that a man who has ever felt the influence of Harvard should ever be less than the best...
...would gladly see whatever calamity in preference to war, shall be excused from bearing arms beside their fellow-citizens. Our people does not desire to enforce against any man's scruples the duty of defending his nation, for the possibility that it, the whole people, may be wrong, and one man right...
...foolish assertion that history repeats itself. But it is that men are much alike from generation to generation. The peasants of Russia are no wiser than were the peasants of France twelve decades ago. They have as great a wrong to right, as far a journey to go on the way which lends to stability and strength. Is liberty always to be bought with blood? And are rapine, anarchy, and destruction the price wherewith democracy is attained? If so, they are well bought; but they are dearly bought...