Word: discredits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only a semblance? Should we not view the fact that other colleges are praying for us, in the light of a disgrace, instead of being amused at our notoriety? Further, we should not deceive ourselves by thinking that compulsory chapel is the great issue. Were that true we could discredit our accusers. But we cannot deny the abhorred spirit of indifference shown by our college life toward the thing which gives us all that we have. This general indifference is the thing which brings down criticism upon us, and the compulsory chapel service is but an unimportant means of attack...
...Democratic Party has always stood for giving independence to the Philippines immediately or very soon. Both Democrats and Republican insurgents are naturally eager to discredit the Administration at this time. And these two groups together have a majority on the Rules Committee (TIME, Dec. 24) and might employ an investigation to political advantage, whatever its outcome. Whatever they feel in regard to General Wood, the regular Republicans will probably seek quietly to prevent such an investigation...
...valid objection to the scheme as a whole. Of course, practical business men wil decry it as making education a soft sinecure--or a softer sinecure than they say education is at present. The objection does not follow naturally, but it may follow in this case and so throw discredit on the whole trend of the collegiate educational system. The proposal to abolish examinations has come not through evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn but as a relief measure, a means of stopping cramming and cheating at examinations by removing the examinations. While admitting that...
...features of the modern game of football that victory, apparently assured after infinite effort, may be converted into utter defeat by a single play. To say that this was the case last Saturday is no discredit to Brown, for a football game is decided by the score and not by the efforts of critics who analyze afterward. Nothing can dim the lustre of a victory gained in a stern chase and gained for the second year in succession...
...question of whether the Philippines should ever have independence; the Jones Insular Government Act made some eventual provision for that. The question is, should they have it now? Perhaps Mr. Guevara can advance arguments to prove his case, or even discredit the administration of General Wood. At any rate, it is good to hear the other side of the case from a sincere and intelligent advocate...