Word: condemn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...means by which resolute endeavor, firmness, restraint of habits, honorable emulation, and pluck are inculcated should be gladly welcomed; and we should not condemn them on account of minor accompanying imperfections. We need strength of character, strength of body, strength of intellect; the first is favored by the very means which are now adopted for attaining the second...
...Crimson tacitly assumes that the antiquity of the custom of class-tree exercises is the only argument in its favor. The intense radical spirit at present prevailing here, which says that all that is old in ways and beliefs is consequently wrong, and whatever new, right, would condemn this plea of antiquity as worse than none, forgetting that change and improvement are not always synonymous terms, any more than antiquity and perfection are. The variety which a Harvard Class Day furnishes in the way of entertainment is one of the pleasant features of the day, and the exercises...
...which is one of their leading characteristics. Not that we accomplish nothing by the spirit of progress, which is proverbial in us, and which has so often astonished even ourselves; but what we gain, we get frequently at a disadvantage. There is much to praise, but also something to condemn in despatch. It is liable to deteriorate, and result in hurry and confusion, which seldom succeed, even under favorable circumstances. Foreigners notice especially the fast way in which our business men get through life. As though the fund of energy from which they draw were inexhaustible, they overwork the mind...