Word: discrediting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Although it may not reflect discredit upon the management, one's dissatisfaction at the allotment of seats is strength- ened by a rumor that a member of the 'Varsity squad is offering to sell tickets at a premium. If each member of the squad is allowed more tickets than he can use for his friends, why should not the number given each be limited so as to allow those who have consistently supported the teams a fair chance to see the most important game of the season from an advantageous position. SENIOR
...reporting the account of the Bram murder trial; since this was such a terrible murder and such a disgrace to civilization, why not suppress everything about it? Why not suppress some of the scandalous debates of the U. S. Senate or the House? Surely these debates are a discredit to the nation, and whoever reports them is, according to the standard of the writer in the Graduates' Magazine, "plying a shameless trade," and is disloyal to his country. I can say why it is not best to suppress them: it is because a good tempering influence is exerted by these...
...will admit as soon as any one that some vile stories greatly to the discredit of Aarvard have appeared in the papers, but I am absolutely sure that no Harvard man would lie about his college. The motto "Veritas," behind which the writer in the Graduates' Magazine would hide, is as dear to the student correspondent as to any other undergraduate, or to any graduate; and has, I contend, been as well upheld...
...have always excelled before, and it is therefore doubly disappointing that they should have failed in the present instance. We will not say that careful preparation on this point would have won us the debate with Yale; we will say that it would have gone far to lessen the discredit of the defeat...
...matter how quickly and eagerly loyal graduates and enthusiastic students would raise the money to defray it, is against the idea. Then, too, it may be questioned whether all the newspaper talk and excitement and the increased expenditure of time as well as money would not tend to bring discredit upon college athletics generally in the same way that the great football games are admitted to have done when not played on college grounds...