Word: mistaken
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kinds of composition. Yet unhappily most of us never seem fully to realize that we cannot make valuable contributions to every department of literature. We feel that whatever man has done, we can do, forgetting that we are not yet full grown men. We incline to the mistaken view that all the critical reviews, essays, stories, plays, poems, and what not, we write, must be worth printing. To be sure, it may be very good training to attempt a poem which proves to be anything but poetry; but to publish such a failure is foolish...
...COLUMBIA RACE.The Columbia 'Varsity crew of last year was said to be one of unusual power and speed. It was thought that Harvard, if it won at all, would win by but a narrow margin. The event, however, proved this view to be a mistaken...
...exception of the 'swell,' the 'grind' is the least valuable and useful type of college student. While a rational and vigorous attention to study is the prime object of a college course, the man who devotes himself to study exclusively, withdrawing himself from all human interest, is quite as mistaken an extremist as he who neglects his studies altogether. The former's science of navigation may be excellent, but if he does not know the sun when he sees it, his ship will fail of a successful voyage all the same. It is for this reason that the names most...
...academic year. This year the speaking promises to be of the highest order of merit. Although some of the Boston papers last year criticised quite severely the "lifeless action and more lifeless diction" of the speakers as they were pleased to express it, this criticism arose from a mistaken idea of the true art of elocution, gained, perhaps, from a too great familiarity with the old style back country college oration. Mr. Jones's method in teaching is now beginning to bear up its fruits. His intention to inculcate naturalness both in voice and gesture, has led him to introduce...
...Harvard medical faculty, and certainly as reliable as the gymnasium director, and was pronounced perfectly healthy and capable of rowing a two-mile race. Were this the only case of disagreement between the gymnasium director and reliable Boston physicians it might well be possible that either could be mistaken in his diagnosis; but such is not the case. Large numbers of the men examined at the Hemenway gymnasium are examined by other physicians, and in almost every case the opinion of the director has been reversed. This leads us to suppose that the present director of the gymnasium, capable...