Word: discredited
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...will go into homes where the name of Harvard has never been mentioned. Some will have an opportunity to change a bad reputation to a good one. What the College may demand of them all is that they shall in none of their dealings with employers or customers cast discredit on Harvard. We all know with what readiness we judge our contemporary colleges by the single representatives from them who who now and then come among us or whom we meet during the summer months. So long as we remember that Harvard is being judged in the same...
...photograph committee that the Seniors can finally be rounded up in sufficient numbers to assure a respectable Class Report and "Album." Now the success of these publications depends in great degree upon unanimity of support; a class album with a lengthy list of omissions is a life-long discredit to the delinquents and a life-long source of inconvenience and dissatisfaction to the other members of the class. It is as if a city should publish a directory containing the names of only a part of the inhabitants. Let every member of the class of 1913 do his part toward...
...common contentious attitude of counsel in a lawsuit, and the common attitude of the judge as the umpire in a game, have done much to discredit the administration of justice in the United States. Counsel do not seem to the American public to be officers of a court seeking for truth and justice, but players of an unethical, intellectual game. The judge seems to regard himself--often perforce as a mere umpire between contending parties, and not as an agent of the commonwealth to settle controversies on their merits. The American public has lost some of its old faith...
...lift our voices in protest. Perhaps we could afford to let men who are incapable of indicating their disapproval of a man and his policies in a more gentlemanly and dignified way place appraisal upon themselves and their manners; but when their conduct reflects upon the College and brings discredit upon it, it behooves the rest of us to bestir ourselves...
...outside of college work. Dr. A. P. Fitch '00, representing the religious life of the University, said that nowhere was it so easy for a boy to be a normal youth as in a school of learning. If a man at Harvard gets to a point where he brings discredit upon himself, it is so much the worse, because there is little excuse. Following this, Dr. Fitch spoke about the great advantages of services in Appleton Chapel...