Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...level as shall keep them above legitimate question. These sports at their best have an immense educational power in every part of education that is not dependent on books or on works of art; but we persistently throw away much of what they offer by pursuing them in the wrong spirit. To my thinking, the sport most in need of reform now is not football (though that is far from perfect), but baseball. It is hard to conceive of anything meaner than tripping an adversary as he runs past a base, or "rattling" a batsman with derisive language poured into...
...only industrious plodding. They often rate the two occupations much as savages do hunting and husbandry. That athletics develop essential moral qualities is undoubtedly true; but that is no sufficient reason why intellectual things should be undervalued; and it was the feeling that either out tests for rank were wrong, or that the students failed to recognize them at their true worth, that gave rise to the appointment of a special committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the spring...
...admiration of the debating teams that can argue opposite sides of the same question and make both appear right to learned judges. It is a triumph of argumentation, which would be complete except that one is now left in doubt as to whether an income tax is right or wrong. Certainly the outcome shows that the Harvard teams had mastered the subject, and presented it effectively...
...entirely disconnected from the societies, for they are both made up of the same men and any serious evil in the societies results in injury to the individuals and to the College through the individuals. Yet even here, there should be no interference by public opinion unless the wrong becomes a public wrong. At that time and not till then is the College public justified in putting...
...southern states were citizens of the country no less than the sons of the north, but they saw their duty differently. Their convictions were as intense, their devotion as sincere, but their cause, as we now believe, was wrong. Soldiers of the north or of the south, they fought well on the one side or the other, and those who died never knew the issue of the conflict. It is the fidelity which impelled her sons to give their lives unselfishly for a cause that Harvard has honored in building a memorial to the soldiers of the north...