Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what he considers broadminded,--to glorify any ideas new and different because they vary from the established order of things. Some men frankly admit that they do not want to accept conclusions from the accumulated philosophy and religion of centuries, not because they have found them to be wrong, but purely and simply because they are afraid that such conclusions will make them like everybody else...
...those working their way through, either of which may end disastrously for the careless, although to curb either would be absurd. The amount a man undertakes in college is dependent wholly upon himself. No one else is competent to judge his capacity; and while his own estimate may be wrong the experience gained by success or failure is of considerable value...
Section Leaders in the Wrong...
...Shelley that they have both feet and heads in the clouds; which is not exactly dignified. And it tempts one to invite them to come down to earth. We must not be construed, however, as implying disagreement with the ideas about censorship expressed. We think Clark University wrong in insisting on faculty supervision, and it is obvious that Williams has given undue publicity to the "Record's" fall. But the kept idealists of the "Nation" and the "New Republic" must have their fling...
...through the book runs the threnodic tone of something being wrong with the Church. "It is impious to think that heaven interposed in the affairs of humanity to produce that ridiculous mouse, the modern curate. No teacher in the history of the world ever occupied a lower place in the respect of men. . . . He figures with the starving children of Russia in appeals to the charitable as a object of pity. The hungry sheep look up and are not fed but the shepherd also looks up from his pit of poverty and neglect, as hungry as the sheep, hungry...