Word: wrongly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much printed matter, furnished gratuitously, which is not read. For instance, a student said to the president that the "organization of Memorial was fundamentally vicious, as the steward had an interest in making the board bad, as he got 50 per cent. of every order." This is "fundamentally" wrong. An officer of the Hall did not know that the directors could dismiss the steward without consulting anybody, yet all this is in the "Scheme for carrying on the Hall." Courtesy for other bodies often obliges the faculty to withhold information. When the faculty decided to make the freshman courses elective...
...present day an excellent play for two rushers to stand shoulder to shoulder in their line in front of their runner, and as he comes forward to open his path by turning away from one another at the instant he comes, the abuse of such tactics is wrong, and it never is, and never can be, good foot-ball to not only push and drag rushers out of the way, but even to butt, seize and pull to one side ends and halves who are running across to tackle. It is no exaggeration to say that this is, even...
...being the foundation on which all that has followed has been built. They are full of the greatest beauties, the sublimest thoughts that have ever been recorded. How to choose between the classics and modern languages becomes a hard question. To abandon either entirely for the other is unquestionably wrong. To devote considerable time to the study and appreciation of them both is, it seems to us, the happy mean and the most rational course...
...another column there appears the annual statement of the finances of the University Boat Club. It will surprise nobody to see that the large total is in the wrong column, or to put it more clearly, that there is the usual debt that has not failed to put in its appearance on any boat club account since the memory of man. The deficit this year is $1,886.93. The treasurer's report which precedes the statement attempts an explanation of the grounds for this deficit. The expenses were chiefly augmented by the purchase of boats and the expenses attendant...
...Bailey, '88, opened for the negative, declaring that George's assumption that this is an age of progress and poverty is wrong. It is an age of progress from poverty...