Word: demerits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...humiliating that a student in Harvard College-for we cannot but assume that a student was the guilty person-should not know better than to commit such an act of vandalism. Any marking of books belonging to a library is wrong; but such defacement as this has the additional demerit of being excessively silly...