Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Cunningham comes of a generation which in its youth saw issues clearly. Things were right,--or things were wrong. With a self-assurance born of pioneer optimism, they made their decisions and acted on them. In 1917 they made one of their self-assured decisions. England was right. Germany was wrong. War was glorious, like San Juan Hill. So America went...
Today the majority of students in the Ivy League colleges do not see the issues of our nation in terms of absolute right and wrong. Furthermore, they doubt the wisdom of their elders who attempt to make judgments in those terms. Every thinking student has his own set of premises, draws his own conclusions from those premises. Rarely do either the premises or the conclusions agree perfectly with those of any other student. In this era of shifting assumptions mass thinking in our colleges cannot exist...
...social implications hidden in those words "higher education" are an obstacle to those who seek to minimize the number who follow the wrong educational road...
...distinctly remember having had a dictitian here at Bard by the same name, whose four-year term expired this fall! We don't like to say that the worthy daily in question is wrong...
...careful inventory which is now being conducted in the stacks, librarians discovered that some books had been placed in the wrong shelves, and they found several volumes which they had thought were lost...