Word: misunderstoodness
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...agree with the writer of the communication in yesterday's CRIMSON, that the time may be ripe for renewing interest in the University Club, but I fear that the present state of that movement may be misunderstood by Mr. Wrightington and by many who have read his letter...
During the past few years President Eliot's attitude towards athletics has been so much commented on, and so much misunderstood, that it is doubtful if the members of the University have any correct idea as to what his opinions really are. The position of the Corporation in regard to sports has also been much criticised without being sufficiently well known, while the functions of the Athletic Committee have never been well explained to the undergraduate body...
...members of the Senior class are, like the Class Day Committee, extremely sorry that the Committee of the Corporation has been misunderstood and in a number of communications unintentionally misrepresented. The Corporation Committee might justly feel that it has been treated with scant consideration, almost discourteously by the students...
...they must give up the second. III. In states not doubtful they can accomplish both by voting for Palmer and Buckner, for, (A) in this way they administer a sharper rebuke to the silverites than in voting for McKinley, for (1) a vote for McKinley is liable to be misunderstood. It is doubtful whether it represents (a) a high protectionist. (b) a Republican who has not usually voted, (c) a Democrat, (2) a vote for Palmer and Buckner cannot be mistaken for it is evidently cast by a Democrat, (a) against Bryan and his silver platform, (b) for gold...
...later years, with the development of the elective system, by which each man has fitted his studies to his needs, the University has come nearer to it. To one who knows Harvard there is something almost ludicrous, were it not for the sorrowful thought that the University is so misunderstood, in the cry of Harvard indifference. Because schoolboy ideals and codes are fast disappearing, because men will not be driven in a body, because a man thinks that above all he should seek to make the best use of those powers which God has given him, Harvard is indifferent...