Word: condemns
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...from the criminal than life imprisonment because of the fact that a man's life is his dearest possession, and that he would consider well before jeopardizing it. The Sophomores based their argument on the statement that capital punishment does not protect society, for a jury naturally hesitates to condemn a man to death, so that a very small percentage of those actually guilty of murder ever receive the death sentence...
...optimist; he sees in this field a bright future for every man of ability who will work. His conclusion that the game is decidedly worth the candle, will put heart into many who have been deterred from entering upon this valuable work by hearing those engaged in it condemn it as the "Graveyard of Genius...
...strangest of the many strange conditions at Harvard is the slack attitude of the ordinary undergraduate toward cribbing in outside written work. Public sentiment condemns cheating in examinations or in the classroom; it does not condemn the copying of reports, theses etc. Men are continually doing such copying to a greater or less degree, and they escape (just as in a noted case of the kind within the last year or two) not only punishment by the authorities, but all censure from friends who would be quick to frown upon cheating in other forms. Public opinion alone can deal with...
...with that of several decades ago and said that on the whole it was much better. The clean cut play of the last Yale game furnished a pleasing contrast to the somewhat questionable tactics sometimes employed in former championship matches. In baseball, however, Dean Briggs still found much to condemn, censuring particularly unsportsmanlike talk by the players. He urged that the umpire be not only empowered but instruc- ted to stop any unnecessary noise and to enforce chivalry among the contestants...
...individual notions. We are sorry that Mr. Stearns had to listen to "bar-room or pool-room gossip, given additional vigor by quotations from the classics." We wish now that someone who knows what undergraduate conversation and habits generally are would step forward and praise rather than confess and condemn...