Word: wrongs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...problem of justification by faith is to make a man right who is wrong. We have seen that a man cannot make himself right by a direct aim at right. The law of indirectness forces him to use power outside of himself and these powers he must find in some great personality From the example and relationship of this personality he can fill his soul with great aims, high aspirations and can become the embodiment of a great purpose with absolutely no room left for considation of self...
...university seems to me to be more apparent than ever. Though the Harvard Union may the best it can, and though there are some undeniably good men in it, it does not satisfy the university at all. To begin with its members are elected on a totally wrong principle. Any man, who speaks twice from the floor, is at once taken into the society. It does not depend on the character of his speeches at all, only on the number. The result is that the Union is composed largely of men who have no real claim to a speaking ability...
...college. No matter how insufficient may be their elementary teaching or how limited and inadequate the practical education obtained from it, provided that sufficient knowledge is crammed into them to enable them to pass, by written examinations the requirements of the college, their mission is ended. This is a wrong state of affairs. On the contrary, instead of the college dictating to the schools what they shall do it should be, in a certain sense, the reverse. The schools should so educate their pupils that, when the proper time comes, they will be able easily and naturally to enter college...
WILL the man who took the wrong hat from the Crimson Cafe yesterday, please return it immediately. Owner's name is plainly written...
...High license is wrong in principle, - (a) It gives to an evil the sanction of law. (b) It strengthens the saloon power: New Engl., XLVIII. 127. - (c) It tends to make drinking and the liquor traffic respectable: North Am. Review, vol. 147, p. 123. - (d) It debauches public sentiment: Our Day III. 335. - (e) It is the plan of the liquor men: Hand-book of Prohibition...