Word: cheapen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...must lead a field of about seventy men in the intercollegiate run, and one must also have the good fortune to be on the winning team. If the framers of this strange device have any sense of humor they must have smiled at their work. It certainly does not cheapen the "H." One needs not only an extremely good pair of legs, but also a propitious co-operation of the planets before this fantastic coincidence happens to him. The letter might as well be withheld altogether as displayed at such a mocking distance...
...such an exhausted condition. Moreover, the distance runners in the spring are often the cross-country runners of the preceding fall. At Yale the letter is awarded to those runners who finish within twelfth place in the intercollegiate run, whether Yale wins the run or not. This does not cheapen the letter, for to secure even twelfth place in such an event requires great qualities. I think the Athletic Association should follow Yale's example in this respect, and place a real "H" within the reach of good cross-country runners, or else remove the mythical reward altogether. E.L. VIETS...
...team, is the very height of bad taste. The noise occurred, not in the admission stand, but in the centre of the season ticket section, and consequently must have come, in part at least, from undergraduates. Harvard men have always treated opposing teams with courtesy; why should they now cheapen themselves by making members of their own team the butt of their sense less laughter? SENIOR