Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...raises the quality, quite another. Old educational systems are often said to have erred by excess of authority. I could not say so. The elective system, if it is to possess the future, must become as authoritative as they. More accurately we say that their authority was of a wrong sort. There are two kinds of authority, - the authority of moral guidance, and the authority of repressive control. Which shall college authority be? Authority is necessary, ever-present authority. If the young man's choice is to become a thing of worth, it must be encompassed with limitations...
...guidance of parents and teachers, the restrictions and suggestions of the college authorities, and the presumed readiness of college instructors to give personal advice in the matter, it may seem as though the chance of going astray were pretty well limited to the heedless, the capricious, and the wrong-headed, who can hardly be induced by any means to go right. But really there are many well meaning fellows of sixteen to twenty-four who, with the best of purposes and wishes, are not competent to judge of the lines of study best for them, or to form opinions...
...wrong in your logic, good Dr. McCosh...
...Peruthanhs the opening verse of the number is delicate, but not well rounded. Of the prose contributions, the charming little sketch, "Where the Muse Abideth," is perhaps the best, it is followed by another sketch, "An Unpleasant Reminiscence," which is decidedly disappointing. As to the two stories, "Right or Wrong?" and "Violin," the former is a peculiar but not unlikely tale well brought out, the latter is a vivid piece of writing rather packing in moral tone. A story with a moral tacked on the end is usually tiresome, a story like "Violin" without a moral scattered through it deserves...
...than it should have been. But such must always be the case when complications arise similar to those which have been brought so prominently to public attention in connection with the location of the game. The fact that the game was played at Princeton must settle the right and wrong of the matter, insomuch as the arbitration was left to men of known integrity and thorough familiarity with the matter under dispute. The fact that the game was a tie will undoubtedly occasion further discussion and will probably necessitate another game played upon neutral ground. Such a game will arouse...