Word: wrongfully
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...truth of the matter is not that we are on the wrong track in education, but that we have gone forward too hastily. Mr. Butler's protest is valid not against the principle but against its excess. Elsewhere on this page we print an account of a new system of examinations at Harvard designed to equip the student for the fullest use of his faculties in the interpretation of what he has learned. This is not a reaction from the generous elective system introduced at Harvard twenty years ago. It is intended rather as a corrective to that system...
Some students happened to walk down the aisle with their coats on. This obviously is a breach of etiquette! Wearing a hat or coat in the dining room IS wrong. But to an equal degree, if not, more is the terrific screaming, yelling and the raising of a general St. Vitus turmoil which was indulged in by most of the diners--ostensibly to show disapproval of "wrong etiquette" but methinks an opportunity inadvertently seized by sub-conscious entities to show the genuine essence within; men cursed with a woeful lack of self-restraint...
...wish to point out to these inconsistent upholders of "proper decorum" that one wrong does not justify another. M. D. POTTER...
Aside from all contentions as to the right or wrong of the Sinn Fein movement and "free Ireland", the group of Irish sympathisers who attacked the New York Union Club, demanding that the British flag which was flying in celebration of the Pilgrim Tercentenary, be furled, made a grave mistake. While such an act cannot possibly hurt England, or England's honor, it may, however, easily bring harm to the Irish themselves. Such a demonstration of mob violence is only too likely to prove a boomerang. A people which loses its head and charges at an unprovocative flag like...
...Advertisement" has a really big theme, but its deserved effect is lessened by the mechanics of its narration. In the first place, the style is not wholly suited to it and the insertion in the wrong places of such asides as "Pass the matches" and "please, the matches" irritates the reader beyond words. O. Henry might have told the story in such a manner and still have been effective; Mr. Rogers' ear is not yet quite sensitive enough to get the effect he so obviously tries...