Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...well known fairness of Harvard students in general, the whole matter would be settled to the satisfaction of all parties, and that Columbia and Harvard would still continue on their former footing of friendliness. The endeavor, however, of the Harvard Boat Club to cast the blame and discredit of the fiasco upon Columbia induced the directors of the Boat Club to call a mass meeting of the students to set the true statement of the case before them and gain their consent for its publication. This statement has already been published in the New York papers, and I would recommend...
...unsuccessful. The committee wisely made frequent postponements in the hope that finally sufficient enthusiasm might be scraped together to induce seventy-five men out of a class of over two hundred to lend their aid to bring about a reunion of the class; but the effort failed, to the discredit and injury, it must be confessed, of no one but the class...
...eccentricities should not exist, but that Harvard men themselves should countenance and encourage the opinion that such characteristics prevail throughout the college, and thereby distinguish it from other colleges, is truly deplorable. Any expression of sentiment condemning such practices as prevail among certain classes of men, and which bring discredit upon the college, will certainly meet the approval of Harvard students, and any frank discussion of evils that exist will be welcomed, but the assumption that such qualities are characteristic of the entire body of Harvard undergraduates is gratuitous and certainly erroneous...
...been an undergraduate college paper, in the customary sense of the word, nor an official publication, by any manner of means; and, therefore, we have always deprecated its claims as a representative of Harvard or of Harvard opinion. Be that as it may, the Register has certainly been no discredit to the University, and its discontinuance may reasonably be regretted by many persons...
...wine was used; that the party were, without exception, sober; and that their only offence against good order was the singing of college songs when on their way through Court and Cambridge Streets. In short, in no part of the evidence did anything appear which could in any degree discredit young men with the College authorities, or which need give any concern to the most sensitive of their friends...