Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...American scholarship and to take our places without excuse in the second rank. It must never be forgotten that, with all our improvement, we have not yet reached any such height of scholarship that we can afford to lower our standard-indeed we cannot lower it without positive discredit...
...universe. It is just as proper to speak of the word of the Lord as coming from Agassiz and Huxley as from Moses and Isaiah. When the great light of modern science came upon the world many were weak enough to think that the old revelations were thrown into discredit; they fell down on their faces instead of remembering the exhortation of the prophet to stand on their feet and face the glory of the Lord. The revelations of today do not controvert, they add to and ennoble the grand discoveries of the past...
...were plunging. Harvard held that leagues were responsible for half the evils of athletics, because they forced an unreal "championship" upon the competing colleges, which came to be more valued than the game itself. They furnished the basis for mean trading, disreputable contentions and continual bickering which reflected much discredit on college athletics. It is not necessary to cite instances; the history of all college leagues stands as proof of the statements here made...