Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many of us who are interested in educational problems complain of the American system in general as being fundamentally wrong, and we hear vague sighs for the English method. Examinations are prescribed work, the bane of our college existence, are said to be a mere cold blooded ticketing of students; there is no freedom. Through school and college we are dogged into receiving an education which has been aptly described as a fair amount of knowledge in one field and a shrewd suspicion that other fields exist. We are prone to look to England for the solution...
...such conditions not through choice but through lack of an agency to cure them. Perhaps they elected Curley not because they like his record for "crooked" politics, but because they admire his personal traits of gameness and determination--the instinctive feeling of sympathy for the under dog, right or wrong. At any rate, it comes in the end to this: either Boston's citizens are all crooks, or they are fools. The New Republic decides the former; Boston can take its choice...
...impressions of Trotsky and Lenin, the Bolshevik leaders, were contrary to the general opinion. She described them as men who, whether they were right or wrong in their doctrines, were at least educated and sincere, devoted to their cause, and neither blood-thirsty nor fierce...
...increase of intramural competition in all branches of athletics. It is felt at the H. A. A. that there are several obstacles in the way of ratification of the petition. An objection is to be found in the fact that some of the spectators are likely to take the wrong attitude. In addition, there arises the question of seating facilities. The capacity of gymnasiums such as Hemenway, is at best limited, and it is doubtful if the athletic authorities could handle the crowds which recognition of the sport would be sure to attract...
...headedness, and the realization that his community will be disgraced in the eyes of the world, should act as a restraining influence upon any man. That is perhaps the real value of any law--not the individual punishment it inflicts, but the standard of right and wrong which it sets up for men to recognize and follow...