Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...country may favor this economy, as was claimed, or it may not. But no matter where it stands, there seems to be a rift in the lute of the administration's peace. Something has gone wrong, certainly, when two such widely divergent policies can be brought to light within the same twenty-four hours. President Harding may have been more strongly affected than he know by the sight of the coffins on the pier; or the Senate may have suddenly become over-enthusiastic in its efforts. Whatever it was, administrative co-ordination apparently does not work at long-distance range...
...announces the adoption of a new and somewhat involved plan of managership competition. A point record has been created involving Personality, Executive Ability, Industry, Reliability, Efficiency and Scholarship. Presumably the previous system at Cambridge was much like our own. Someone will probably pop up and say, "Something must be wrong with Yale's system." We seriously doubt this weakness in managership "heeling" and furthermore question whether the new plan will produce better managers, because...
...knowledge, even if their students do not know an artichoke; nor are the colleges guilty of a grave omission in their duties; nor are professors and students more ignorant now than they used to be. If these examiners are seeking to expose really dangerous ignorance, they are on the wrong track; if they are trying to tell the undergraduate to read more good books, and talk more about serious things, and feel more at home, therefore among men who, if they cannot work for Mr. Edison, are considered educated gentlemen, then they are doing a good work...
That injustice is caused by having Southern whites elect representatives of negroes, supposedly voters, cannot be denied. A similar wrong is occasioned in the North by having whites choose legislators who really also represent other whites, disqualified because of ignorance...
...There is no such thing as a good prison no matter how much you reform it", said Mr. Baldwin. "The whole idea that you can benefit men and women by inflicting punishment upon them is wrong. We all have within us potential criminality; and the most law abiding members of society would commit crimes if they were placed under the same conditions as the majority of the so-called criminals of this country. Most of the 4,00,000 persons imprisoned in the United States are young men, arrested for petty crimes, the result of hunger or poverty...