Word: affaire
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee appointed to investigate the painting of the John Harvard statue have finished their work by finding out the last one of the four men implicated in the affair. He too is a Freshman. His resignation from the College has been accepted, but since he is less blameworthy than the other three men it will not take effect until June 22, when he will have completed his final examinations...
...affair is also calculated to furnish a significant object lesson to new students. Incoming classes will do well to remember, that in obtaining for themselves the privileges of a course in Harvard University, they voluntarily become members of a society whose good name must necessarily be affected by their individual acts, and that every principle of good breeding, or rather of common decency demands that they jealously guard the reputation of the institution to which they owe so much...
...action of the committee is not in itself alone anything to take the slightest pleasure in; it has been a disagreeable duty performed to gain a very desirable end. The inexperience of the men involved in the affair, and the fact that they did not, in all probability, realize the serious character of what they did, makes it very hard to interfere with the continuance of their college course...
...acted secretly in its investigation because it felt that it was through the aid of the undergraduates alone that anything could be done. If anything further is to be accomplished it can be only through the aid of the men who have some knowledge, however slight, of the affair...
...thought that the proceedings, and, in fact, the very appointment of this committee of investigation, will be especially full of meaning in showing the real opposition of students toward such underhanded doings in general, and that if any one is shown to have any connection with the affair in question, he will, in all probability, be more widely disgraced in Cambridge than would be possible in any other...