Word: misunderstoodness
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...bill that touch the most impassioned issue of that day. Is there among us in America none of that pride that makes famous Englishmen dissent from the enraged majority no matter how hot the issue? In a time like this to be free means for a while to be misunderstood. Why not? Is the intellectual life to be all flabby, with no rugged stretches? Is hardihood to exist only in the body? Let us hear the drum music of our own convictions. The ultimate call just now is to spirit. What can a man do better than to refuse...
...Spading has misunderstood me. And as the CRIMSON entitles his letter "A Good Answer," I dare infer that others have also...
...college education is only too often misunderstood by the undergraduate to mean the bare knowledge of the contents of the books that are read and the assimilation of the facts that are presented in the class room. Others, now in the minority, take the opposite view that the things to be sought at college lie totally without the class room...
...Porto Rican students in this country, who are enjoying the hospitality of the American people and who cherish highly the personal friendships of its citizens, to have to lie idle while our classmates and friends are making war preparations. Our apparent indifference is so apt to be misunderstood and hastily labelled ungratefulness, especially as contrasted with the action taken by Cuba, that a few words of explanation may be pertinent...
...that the American people, even though officially neutral and hence unable to express their approval and support of the righteousness of the Allies cause, are nevertheless back of them in the present war. "There has been but little opportunity for us to demonstrate, in ways which could not be misunderstood, the fact that though the United States is officially neutral, the American people...