Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third day of voting in both the Sophomore and Junior classes comes without the necessary sixty per cent vote being cast, in spite of numerous exhortations and appeals to class spirit, there is gradually coming over the College a realization that there is something wrong in our present system. This has found expression in two ways,-a condemnation of non-voters by their more enthusiastic (or perhaps only more conscientious) class-mates, and a naive reply of "Why should we vote when do don't know for whom we are voting...
...yesterday's CRIMSON a wrong impression was given as to the substance of a part of Mr. Moors' speech at the Union. The quotation states: "Mr. Moors ended his talk by urging the members present to vote. . . for a government by parties." This is exactly the reverse of Mr. Moors' meaning. He clearly made a distinction between voting for an issue--namely the League of Nations, as opposed to victory for party for its own sake. He showed that the Republican party in this election cannot pledge itself firmly on the chief issue because the party is divided...
There is obviously something unfair in the attitude that forces an instructor to impose petty requirements on a course in order to free it from the stigma of classification as a snap. The system is wrong that compels a professor to act toward his classes as a policeman continually watching for minor infringements of obscure ordinances that would never be necessary if the student could learn to interpret broadly and honestly the spirit of a few inclusive laws...
...Observe that the cases I have mention of losing the true end from sight are those of men essentially good. There are bad men who intend to do wrong. Perhaps there would be little use in preaching to them; and it is probable that the aggregate inability of mankind to reach a higher level is due less to deliberate wrongdoing than to the defects of men who mean on the whole to do right. Jonah did no harm in the parable because God disposed otherwise; he lost sight of his object, not because he could not see it, but because...
...reading the advance notices of Mr. Ellis' book. It ought to be interesting. It would be a relief we thought to read the story of "some unprofitable lives"; it would be a welcome contrast to most biographics where the writer is evidently assuming that his subject can do no wrong...