Word: wrongful
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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PROF. You translated it wrong, then...
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...last Friday evening, the Glee Club gave a concert in Steinway Hall, New York, in aid of the Homoeopathic Hospital of that city. The tickets were sold privately, and the hall was well filled. The audience was enthusiastic and surprised; the latter, because they had acquired a wrong idea of College Glee-Club singing. In the programme, given below, will be recognized many songs which have long been favorites in Cambridge; which were, with one or two exceptions, sung as well as we are accustomed to hear them here. The Club were evidently nervous during the first part...
...character that I mean to speak. I had always been lukewarm on the subject of the fighting and bleeding of my grandsires. To tell the truth, it is said that one of my numerous grandsires (how they multiply in three generations: it beats Malthus!) fought on the wrong side and had a commission from his majesty King George. But when I see the very identical earthworks thrown up by the Americans, and the spot where the British marched up and the Americans marched down; where the American fort bombarded the British fleet, and the British fleet bombarded the American fort...
...first place, the writer says that "the admirable finish and coloring which are now given to cathedral glass in American factories remove the necessity of importation." This is entirely wrong, since every piece of cathedral and antique glass which is used in the construction of windows in this country has to be imported, and that, too, from a few firms in England, as there are no other manufacturers either on the Continent or in America...