Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ethically, the proposition is all wrong. The man who is able to slide by in class, and knows that he is not doing the expected work, tends to form such a habit. This habit will grow and take in greater and more important things. Most men who do this thing know that it is wrong but their ethical standards are abstract, not a part of everyday life. They are to be dragged out and burnished occasionally but never used...
...outstanding conception of the Cantabrigian student, in the popular mind, is a snobbish, and pompous individual, scion of a bloated meat-packer, correctly dressed and redressed for every occasion, insensible to the lure of the classic fount, but pursuing the social whirl in liveried equipage. This is all wrong...
...example, men who failed to get rooms are told by those in authority that the list given out for publication is wrong; that there is some mistake; that if they will drop around in a day or two the mix-up will be straightened out. And so the applicant "drops around" only to find that the one in charge is not there. Irregular office hours and "passing the buck" seem to be the law of the room assigners. Surely something can be done to insure the student against such unfair treatment and to bring about co-operation among...
With the score tied, Harvard had an excellent opportunity to score. A decision by Eubanks that was patently and palpably wrong, brought the rally to a finish. The Harvard players didn't budge from their bench. Captain Emmons went out on the field and made his protest in a perfectly orderly manner. When he was overruled he went back to the bench and the Harvard team fought on. The game wasn't delayed more than ten seconds...
...first scene is laid on board the good ship "Juniper", bound for Havena. Cubs, and the action begins as soon as Miss Marie Hayden (Osgood Hooker '21) finds that she and five young laides under her keeping, have boarded the wrong boat. At this discovery she tries to persuade the Captain (J. A. Sessions '21) to let them off at Savannah, Ga., whither they had meant to go. But he is firm and obdurate. From his obstinacy springs the development of the plot...