Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury has cheated the President, so the Supreme Court decided. It was wrong to attempt to impose any income tax on the President or on Federal judges. Hence Mr. Coolidge is entitled to a refund of the taxes he paid on his salary for the latter half of 1923, and also what he has paid...
...court held that the heirs were right on points 1) and 2) but wrong on 3). The decision will cost Pennsylvania more than $1,000,000. It will cost many other states many times that amount for refunds on other taxes of that kind illegally collected...
...foundation. Let us repeat, therefore, that morals, public and private, depend upon opinion. The morality of a people is sustained by a general opinion of its rightfulness, and a general condemnation of its violation. All men sometimes do, and a few men often do what they know to be wrong; but even so they usually try to justify to themselves, or at least to palliate, their sins. In the main men conduct themselves, both in public and private life, in accordance with their moral opinions, or the opinions of those they respect, or the opinions prevalent among the people with...
Aestheticism, popularly conceived, is supposed to result in snobbery. Athleticism, if we may call it such, is believed by too many to necessitate boorishness. The representatives of both extremes on the campus are wrong...
...ignored requirements which conflicted with his interests. Then there is Heywood Broun who left Harvard because he was unable to get what he wanted here. Was this another case where free development was unduly hampered by college regulations? At any rate, it seems evident that something is wrong with a system which makes no place for such men. All systems tend to become too rigid. Greater flexibility must be introduced to encourage the exceptional man. The dean's list and the provision that candidates for distinction may drop a course in their Senior year are steps in the right direction...