Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...elected by a majority, but two of the votes cast were illegal. Mr. Crawford says that but one vote was challenged, but the truth is that two were challenged, whose names could be furnished if it were necessary. Mr. Crawford thinks that I referred to him. He is mistaken. He must surely know the two I did refer to. When Mr. Crawford says that one of those challenged was an excellent oar, he proves that his opinion is not "worth contradiction." For a man to say that a Freshman of a month's standing could be an excellent...
...recitations in a certain course occupy three hours a week, and upon inquiry, we discover that the basis of the Faculty's calculations is that two hours are to be spent in the preparation of each recitation. In fact, however, it is far otherwise. Some instructors, under the mistaken idea that their particular course is the only thing worth paying any attention to, impose an amount of work upon a student that, if thoroughly performed, would leave little or no time for anything else. Outside reading, theses, and hour examinations are not only recommended, but forced upon us to such...
...correspondent is mistaken in supposing that the Faculty have anything to do with the janitors; the Corporation and the Bursar are alone responsible in this case. - Editors of Crimson...
...that any one became popular by such policy as this. In fact, I meant to imply the contrary, and I am well aware that the most unpopular men in college are those who have so far mistaken the elements of popularity as to think that toadying is one of them. I did not, however, imply that any Harvard graduate was an imbecile. I merely drew a picture of Gosling, and if anybody insists that it is the picture of an imbecile I am not responsible for that opinion...
...Freshman the hardest year. The standing of a student at the end of the Freshman year is no criterion of what he can or will do in subsequent years, and if the course complained of is intended to weed out the poorest scholars of the class, it is a mistaken policy...