Word: accredit
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...undergraduates who were introduced to one another in his presence on one day pass by in each other's sight on the next without the exchange of a common greeting or the slightest act of recognition. To the aspersions "Harvard indifference" and "Harvard snobbery" we are not inclined to accredit a greater basis in fact than to the myriad of similar slanders made against every university by shallow phrase-makers with more time than ideas at their disposal. But it ought to be our care that not a single instance of behavior should occur in our midst...