Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...assertions which we clip this morning from a letter in the Yale News, are of such a character as to excite our warmest admiration. When it is asserted that Yale has never disgraced foot ball by brutality, that she has never by any of her acts brought discredit upon the game, that she has never yielded to any one the first place as a promoter of beneficial legislation, we can feel only admiration for the author of this particular bit of fancy...
...subject to this plague could find some remedy which would free them forever from it. Not only are they continually in the way and making themselves obnoxious, but, by their lack of manners, as shown in their treatment of visiting ball clubs and other organizations, they often bring discredit upon the body of students...
...several years ago, and which in reality was only a harmless affair. We heartily hope that such is the case and that the Pennsylvanian students have not lowered the credit of their Alma Mater by any such display of boyishness and thoughtlessness. If it is true, it will bring discredit not only on them but on students elsewhere. For people are only too apt to put the whole mass of students in the country in the same class and judge them all by some reports of thoughtless acts which appear In the common newspapers...
...open letter to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, a portion of which we publish this morning, an attempt is made to throw discredit on the Veterinary School and on those who have it in charge. It is to be regretted for the sake of his position that the writer felt compelled to use such vigorous language as to assure his readers that those who advised the foundation of the school did it solely for their own selfish purposes, or that the school appears to have been established for the "development of English flunkeyism on American soil," while...
...from inability, but from some unwillingness to do the work. Any contributions will be gladly received; no one need feel any anxiety on that score. There is no reason then why '87 should not do fully as much as the other classes, and it will be to its discredit if it fails. The editors will be chosen solely from the merits of the articles handed in, and we hope to revive more contributions so that those men who are chosen may be fit representatives of the freshman class...