Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Boston papers tell a story of a Yale poker game which was recently played. It was a jack pot and it had grown, after much heavy betting to $250. The loser, wonderful to relate, fainted on the show of hands. We are inclined to discredit this story for we think no Yale man would faint...
...shuddering horror, and vow never to send their sons to such a school of iniquity as Harvard. How utterly absurd all this is! Yet the raving maniacs who write all this stuff are allowed to roam about at will to deliberately falsify, and to bring great and undeserved discredit on the fair name of our college. Let something be done quickly to put an end to this crying evil. Let every man ascertain the names of those who thus misuse their power, and let them lienceforth be avoided as "dangerous beasts" by all who love the college. I would...
While in the main we agree with our correspondent of to-day, we cannot approve of his more violent phrases. It is true that a tendency of Harvard student-correspondents of leading daily papers to bring discredit on their Alma Mater by sensational writing is becoming day by day more noticeable. If any reporter exaggerates what he hears, he is to be severely criticized. For the college-man who endeavors to make capital for himself or for his paper by gross misrepresentations of college events, no criticism is too sharp, no condemnation too severe. A man, who can so forget...
...various ways. For instance: the fact that I am enjoying a walk does not prove that I went out, or am walking now, of my own free-will; on the contrary, my enjoyment, in so far as it has any bearing at all on my freedom, tends to discredit it; since it would be harder to assign a reason for my action, if I had gone out when to do so caused me trouble and annoyance. We might, in this case, look for such opposed motives as could have influenced me; but we should then be merely evading and postponing...
There is a spirit of childishness lurking somewhere in Harvard, that is doing its best to bring discredit upon her. Its presence was first indicated this year, by the defacing of the Harvard statue and the chapel; its last exhibition has been even more foolish and dangerous. While England is being terrified by dynamite explosions, some men seized upon the idea that a little sensation of the kind would be interesting here. Accordingly, last week, a large cannon cracker was fired off at midnight in front of Matthews. As this did not produce the desired effect, another one was tied...