Word: wrongfully
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...faculty have practically convicted him of. To obey the requirements of the sentence inflicted upon him is tacitly to admit his guilt. He has shown his manhood by refusing to submit, preferring to sever his connection with the college. Confident in his own mind that he has committed no wrong, he will not sacrifice his self-respect by attempting to carry out the terms of a sentence which, indeed, his circumstances render almost impossible. I think it is but an act of simple justice to put on record the opinion of every man with whom I have spoken...
...else, in order that the latter might know whether or not they err in supposing, as many do, that the faculty do not trust the honor of the students, and that their policy is to sacrifice the slight offender or even the innocent transgressor that the greater but undetected wrong-doers may see and tremble...
...board ship at eleven or twelve; his previous knowledge or general training is what you may suppose for that age. It is in the course of actual service, and in no other way, that he acquires his professional fitness for commanding fleets. Is this right or is it wrong? Perhaps it is wrong, but it has gone on so for a long time. Well, why may not a preacher be formed on the same plan? John Wesley was not a greater man in preaching than Nelson in seamanship. Take, then, a youth of thirteen from the school. Apprentice...
...loath to countenance the race by their support. For the benefit of these we shall attempt to explain matters. Columbia holds one view of the late difficulty, Harvard another. We hold that the Harvard crew and the boat club, by its subsequent action, were entirely in the wrong, and that our men could not have acted otherwise than they did. Harvard claims that there existed merely a misunderstanding, the blame of which can be justly attributed to no one. Is it not, then, obvious that on no account could an apology be expected of Harvard when she was conscious...
...hours a week, a mark that would certainly give him honors if he took six courses on the same subject. So that a man practically gets the same degree for eighteen hours work that another man gets for forty-two hours work. There is something wrong in this arrangement without a doubt, and we trust that in time some method will be devised to do away with the evil...