Word: wronging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student loses some of its attractiveness when it is realized as the corollary of unstable and unhealthy conditions. But Dr. Gray has raised a problem. If prosperity and content lead to enfeebled intellects, if education is not great enough to force upon the mind of students the problems of wrong and un-justice that remain, America is following the primrose path to ruin...
...chief backer, Albert D. Lasker, invited reporters to call on him at his room in the Drake Hotel at 5 o'clock of an afternoon. When they came he served them each with a mimeographed statement. In it was a summary of what the Senator believes to be wrong with the country and how he would right it, to which was appended the words: " Upon these as fundamentals . . . I will make my appeal. In every state the contest will be waged...
...Sherwood admits in his preface that there is something wrong with the movies, but that there is also a great deal that is good in them; and it is with the latter element that his book deals. For those desiring a more comprehensive and a more permanent record of American "movies" than can be found in the current photo-play magazines, "The Best Moving Pictures" forms a handbook and a book of reference entirely without rival in its field...
...measure, a means of stopping cramming and cheating at examinations by removing the examinations. While admitting that the Honor System in college has little to recommend it and the policing of examination rooms remains an insult to many, yet the Columbia method seems to approach the problem from the wrong end, to put the cart before the horse. Before undergraduates may be allowed all the privileges of the "desire" program, they must be educated up to education by desire. In this course of sprouts, gradual extension of freedom of cuts is a prime requisite to accustom the student to responsibility...
...green. Then a short time ago a clever reporter came upon a man registering at a hotel as E. Robinson Casey. With sudden inspiration he cried. "Why, did you do it?" "I couldn't help it," Mr. Casey replied in a dull and automatic tone, "the umpire called 'em wrong...