Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Hunt Wentworth '17, president of the Lampoon, speaking from the depths of experience, gave the Freshman some sage advice as to what not to do. "Don't believe all you hear," he said, "and don't pick the wrong course"--the right course being, according to him, the Lampoon competition...
Major-General Wood, speaking at the Memorial Day exercises endorsed the old slogan, "My country, right or wrong." He said in substance: "Some people think this is not ethical, but it is at least national and that is enough, for in a democracy the majority's will must rule." It seems, however, that Professor R. B. Perry, another earnest advocate of universal military service, in the last number of The New Republic presents a view which Harvard men will more readily endorse. "Loyalty to one's country," he says, "unless one understands its policy and helps to mould...
...more purely literary. Mr. Mitchell's "Study of Oscar Wilde" is judicious, sound, and pleasing, though he uses some odd English--"he was wretchedly raised"; "wearing his top coat every day and leaving it off on Sundays," "impulsive with protest against the contract of existence"; and "protagonists" in a wrong sense. The essay leaves us in doubt as to whether Wilde's work is really worth such thorough study and careful criticism...
Signing up for rifles does not entitle men to take them from the armory after drill hours. A great deal of trouble will be avoided if men will sign up for rifles immediately, since much confusion is caused by taking the wrong rifle...
Professor G. M. Wrong, M.A., F.R.S.C., head of the History Department at the University of Toronto, will give the second of a series of lectures on "Canadian History and Government" in Emerson J, this evening at 8 o'clock. The subject of this lecture will be "Proposals and Prospects for Federalizing the British Empire." This lecture will be open to the public...