Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre expecting to see "America's greatest drama," and to come away with hair on end, feeling like the proverbial jelly, it is just a little disappointing to receive only a moderate thrill, and to have the guilty suspicion either that your ideas of the greatest drama are all wrong, or that someone has exaggerated. Remarkable drama, artistic drama, "The Emperor Jones" assuredly is, and possibly also the greatest of its kind that America has yet produced--but that, after all, is a conservative assertion. Mr. O'Neill has succeeded in a difficult and ambitious task; he has traced...
...regard to your editorial Friday, in which you took a stand against the importance of football in college, I should like to day that I think your six points were badly chosen and that you are seeking the wrong remedy for what I fail to see is such a great evil anyway. Lack of space prevents me from going very deeply into my arguments, but I am willing to go into any of them more fully at your request...
According to the letter printed in the adjoining column, the platform in regard to football published in the CRIMSON Friday, is all wrong. Al suggestions there made are impractical and border on the inane; the whole method of attack is unsound. In spite of the fact that the Presidents of three important Eastern Universities, as well as innumerable other interested, have seen danger in the present athletic situation, our correspondent fails to see that there is "such in great evil anyway...
...Needless to say, none of these measures will be of very great value if they are taken in the wrong spirit. If the spirit of the game were absolutely right now there would be no need for any change; if the disgrace of losing a game were understood to be no disgrace at all, much that is now wrong would automatically right itself. The thing of importance is to play the game for it sown sake; many game such as tennis are played very largely for the purpose of enjoyment. And just so far as any sportsman begins to feel...
...from the point of view of a cold-blooded detective but form that of the philosopher and psychologist. "Environment is responsible for 85 to 90 percent of all crime committed in this country," he said. He always made an effort to find out what turned the criminal on the wrong path, and was interested in seeing whether a criminal went straight afterwards...