Word: condemnable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Resolved, That while we would not discourage proper and enthusiastic celebrations of athletic victories, we do condemn the building of bonfires in the yard, and the continuance of noisy celebrations beyond a reasonable hour...
...special bearing the subject of thievery or drunkenness has on the value of a college degree, or on a college's reputation? On the other hand the facts that cribbing exists, whether in great or small degree, and that it is decidedly an evil in education, are enough to condemn such indifference, or such a desire to be blind to the disagreeable Our Conference Committee deserves great credit for what it has tone, and should receive hearty support in its undertaking...
...judged proper by the faculty for cribbing, be stricken out, and that hereafter the penalty of separation from college be unwritten, but firmly understood. That is, cribbing would be taken from college offences, and placed where it belongs, beside stealing and such other offences, as require no statute to condemn them. Perhaps this mistake made by the Acta can be excused as natural, but the statement that the Conference was influenced by recent cheating, which, as one would judge by their statement, was increasing, is wholly false. Cribbing exists and has existed at Harvard, only as it exists...
...have been passed by a representative student body will call general attention to the subject, and rouse discussion upon it. For it is only by discussion and agitation that the students can be brought to see the true nature of the evil, and establish a public opinion which will condemn...
...anything to be dishonest must arise from some dishonest motive, it is hardly fair to charge every student with dishonesty who finds himself guilty of cribbing. Probably but very few of the cribbing class hope thereby to obtain an unfair advantage over their classmates. College honor would surely condemn a man who cribs so as to obtain a scholarship, or to gain a position on the Phi Beta Kappa. Such a motive would mark a man in the estimation of everyone, a thief and hypocrite. Cribbing cannot be prevalent among men who desire to become scholars. The very earnestness...