Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...specified diet and regular hours for exercise are prescribed. The men until recently have been considerably hampered in not having a good cage for practice, but now through the combined subscriptions of alumni and undergraduates an excellent one of large dimensions has been erected. It is to the discredit of Princeton men that subscriptions have been raised, not only tardily, but in such small amounts. Several alumni agreed to donate a thousand dollars provided the undergraduates of the college furnished twelve thousand. Before this latter amount was raised the money promised by the alumni was asked for, but the gentleman...
...that it would be far more fitting for this miniature Solomon to wait until he becomes an upper-classman, before he makes such childish and impertinent attacks upon those who probably know more about college affairs than he does. Let us hope that "Adolphus" will subside and not reflect discredit on his class by such a puerile display of inanity...
...here than any other college possesses, and rich men's sons are, as a rule, wild and extravagant, and by their actions tend to bring the whole college into disrepute. The chief reason, however, for our "bad eminence" is the readiness which the newspapers show to discredit all colleges, and Harvard, as the largest, gets the greatest share. There is a natural hostility between college-bred men and those who are "self-made," to which class belong the majority of journalists, and this enmity expends itself in spreading false rumors and injurious statements. The only thing that...
Although Harvard lost the, it reflects no discredit on the team, for every man did his work faithfully. When in the first half, the score stood against us, the men did not give up in the slightest, but played a magnificent uphill game. Harvard had an even chance for success, but it lost. It was the greatest game ever seen in New York, and the usual uproar and excitement accompanied...
...boats ship oars, and form a float in the middle of the lake. There they exhaust their repertoire of songs, classical and otherwise, which the many unfavored ones on shore may enjoy. At starting and returning the classes back their crews by such cheering as would do no discredit to the "Rah, Rah, Rah" of Harvard men after a successful boat race...