Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view, and that his regard for what he considers the ill-treatment of the Boston police caused him to say what he did. He is not so much in sympathy with the strikers as he is against the uncompromising attitude of Commissioner Curtis. No matter how far in the wrong the latter may have been, whole-hearted sympathy with the striking policemen cannot be. The argument used so much by their attorneys that they did not strike until assured the city was safeguarded does not hold. If they had known this there would have been no point in striking. They...
...seventy years hence, as Harvard men meet here, what will they say of our present American effort to ensure the peace of the world through a League of Nations? Will they call it right or wrong? Poetry, we may be sure, will take the long view...
...three manufacture should be forbidden. But the bad effects of beer and light wines are very slight. These good effects consist in making a great number of people contented. On narrow dogmatic moral grounds absolute prohibition is right. On those of expediency and common sense absolute prohibition is wrong, and should not be tolerated to go into effect July 1. Were the country given a few months delay such a movement against prohibition would arise that the dry legislation would have to be repealed...
...Prohibition is neither right in principle nor is it Christian in character. Temperance has to do with your control of yourself. It is right. It can be defended. Prohibition has to do with your control by others. It is wrong and has no defense. Temperance is self-imposed and self-enforced; Prohibition is imposed by others against your will, and enforced with a policeman's club. You can no more promote pure temperance by force than you can make love with a brickbat. Prohibition is insulting to your manhood, because it denies to you the right of self-determination...
...CRIMSON's ill-considered reply, there is a halfpenny worth of bread which should not be cast in vain upon the waters. The news writing in the CRIMSON seems to call for an improvement in style. The short, matter of fact sentences allow little room in which to go wrong, but they also make it impossible to be interesting. More color, more space, more frivolity, more careless handling of the powers that be--a premium in the competitions on sprightliness,--while revolutionary would give the CRIMSON more life. The proposed increase in the size of the page will give opportunity...