Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...knows his subject and is sincere, he cannot fall to be an effective speaker. Clearness, which is a great aid to forceful speaking, aims at stating a truth so plainly that it cannot fail to be understood. If a man disputes a truth so stated, there is something wrong with him; his judgment is warped either by a false attitude of heart or else a pecuniary interest. In the first case, the thing to do is to ascertain the man's point of view. All men, said Jefferson, are divided into two natural parties; the democratic and the aristocratic...
...Goodies and the Living Wage"--be it noted that the Monthly when she muckrakes generously gives both sides a hearing--are eminently serious; and the second, it seems to the reviewer, effectively silences the first. For, though we grant that the present system of capital and labor may be wrong, we must in fairness admit that as long as it is in operation the College, in self-defence, can pay only the market price and no more. The Goodies are at a disadvantage inasmuch as they are ignorant of the means of forcing up the market-price by organization, strikes...
...question. Harvard undergraduate affairs have been subject to this sort of misrepresentation in the daily newspapers for a long time, and it seems a pity that it should continue. In the first place, the wording of the article is objectionable and misleading, and is calculated to give a totally wrong impression of the actual conditions. This is especially annoying as it is apparent that it is based on no real knowledge of the subject. Such statements as the above clipping cannot be anything but harmful to the University. Although...
...Sixty is not impossible, if they work together under powerful leadership. Three is too many if they do not. In any case, accepted and admitted leadership is essential, meaning by that a head whose decisions are unhesitatingly accepted, and for whose policy, right or wrong, every man labors...
...handicaps of the following men were wrong and have been changed...