Word: misunderstood
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...good work which the clubs can do does not stop here. In the West Harvard is misunderstood. An unsympathetic, and often prejudiced, press has done much to create an entirely false notion of Harvard men and of the college which they represent. The members of the clubs can do a great deal to dissipate this illusion, and to convince people that Harvard students are thoroughly manly, and their college the most liberal and progressive of American universities...
Last evening Professor Royce, in his course on Modern Thinkers, spoke of Schopenhaner. This philosopher's doctrine is often wholly misunderstood even by his followers; his opponents especially fail to conceive its dignity. The right opinion is to judge the world as tragic, and we should not try to refute Schopenhauer, but grapple with the tragedy...
There is one thing that is very generally misunderstood about the Annex, and that is the nature of the instruction. The institution was founded to give women exactly the same advantages as are given to men by Harvard college. There are no teachers other than the professors and instructors of the college; the charter forbids that any others be employed...