Word: misunderstoodness
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...favor of conservation. But as soon as men in actual practical work begin to apply the doctrine they meet with all kinds of difficulties; they are brought face to face with all kinds of selfish interests, and they are exposed also to the even greater danger of being honestly misunderstood by honest...
...rules with regard to probation are generally and thoroughly misunderstood, thereby creating no too cordial feeling between the undergraduates and the College Office, it seems worth while to explain that the distinction of probation is conferred and recalled practically by the machinations of an unwritten rule, and not at the whim and fancy of the much-abused Administrative Board...
Harvard is grossly misrepresented and misunderstood in the South, and some attempt ought to be made to overcome this. The presence of the Glee Club in many cities in the South would do much to abolish the false impressions that have gathered strength from the inactivity of Harvard men in the South, from the lack of attention paid to the South by Cambridge organizations in tours and from the activity of certain other large institutions not far from Boston...
...response to your editorial relating to the Speakers' Club. I should like to explain the aims and present policy of that organization, both of which have evidently been misunderstood...
Rutherford B. Hayes was a quiet, unobtrusive man, who has been greatly misunderstood. While President Garfield was dying at Elberon, Mr. Wise went to Mr. Arthur's house to tell him of the President's condition. He was a man of great ability, with a thorough knowledge of the duties of this office. Grover Cleveland was a Democrat whose power lay in his conservatism. Whatever he did, he took the consequences for. Mr. Harrison, who was our next President, was a clear-minded, clever lawyer, but narrow and bigoted in religious matters. Mr. Wise first met William McKinley in Congress...