Word: discreditable
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...Administration argument runs this way: Because the summer student body is so transient, School officials have little chance to know and evaluate individuals, and the students themselves probably have little sense of "continuing responsibility" to Harvard. A permissive attitude toward undergraduate organizations, therefore, could lead to situations that would discredit the University. In order to prevent the "wrong kind" of person from gaining access to the Halls of Harvard, the School has thus ruled that no one can enter. The Socialist Club is just an incidental victim of a broad rule insuring a lack of opportunity for everyone...
...time has this permissive attitude of the Harvard Administration resulted in embarrassment for the University. A liberal academic community profits from a great deal of activity, both controversial and conventional, and suffers only from its exclusion. In its effort to shield the University from "discredit," the Summer School has damaged its own intellectual potential, and discredited the name of Harvard far more effectively than could any of the speeches it so fears...
...those who introduced "politics" into NSA was that by bringing students of widely-differing opinions together, the easy answers of the traditional wisdom would come under critical examination. NSA insisted that although it took positions, it was "non-partisan" in an important way. The point was not to discredit any particular political view-point. It was rather to encourage students to think for themselves in a systematic way about the goals and methods of politics...
...been committed, knew what they were doing. The Calas family was openly Huguenot. The father had killed his son to prevent his conversion to Catholicism, the state claimed, citing a questionable passage from Calvin that seemed to demand the murder of converts. By convicting Calas, the authorities meant to discredit all Huguenots once and forever, with the hope that eventually they would be driven out of France entirely...
Harris suggested that a dilution of the tax cut program that made it incapable of reviving the economy would also discredit modern fiscal policy "with loss to the country...