Word: mis
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...Mississippi Floods. Archdeacon Farrar in his paper, "A Few Words on Col. Ingersoll," calls that gentleman "a man of straw." Both Rev. Lyman Abbott in the April number, and Archdeacon Farrar in this, have considered the straw man worthy of their most vigorous poundings. "Why Cities are Mis governed," by Mr. Fassett of the New York Senate, argues that the wrong is always in wrong uses of money, and the remedy suggested is power given to Senate Committees to investigate all conditions of municipal administration and accounting. Under the head of "The Tariff on Trial," Sir Richard Cartwright writes...
...unfortunate that discord should have arisen in the Board of Overseers with regard to the methods of instruction at Harvard, yet nothing could be more mis-directed than the blame which Mr. Morse attributes to our instructors in Political Economy. Their method differs in no way from the freedom of spirit and catholicism which characterize all departments of the university. The traditions at the basis of all Harvard instruction do not tolerate the imposition of any one set of views upon the students. The method of the teachers of Political Economy is therefore to call the attention of their students...