Word: dishonestly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some a good deal; but this I do know in every case, that when a holder of a scholarship lives in a $300 room, and, compared to the average student, in real luxury, that man is either frightfully green and imprudent in his expenditures, or else he is frightfully dishonest in taking money he does not need...
...Hale in a recent letter on the "prayer petition" question, against the tone and tenor of some parts of which one was compelled to protest, dwelt strongly on the fact that "Harvard" expects her sons to be "gentlemen" - not to be guilty of dishonest or dishonorable acts. Harvard men surely do not need, as a body of students, to be reminded of that fact, though the writer is to be thanked for his manliness in boldly stating...
...Conference Committee further recommend that the penalty for all cheating be separation from the college, that is, that he who cheats be either dismissed or expelled. Suspension, which has hitherto been the punishment, is too light. If a man is dishonest he is not fit to take a degree from Harvard; he is neither a gentleman, nor is he fit to associate with gentlemen. The only thing to do with him is to make him leave college...
...pretend to be what one is not is dishonest as well as ill-bred. Does the defender of Anglomania think social dishonesty "betters" Americans. I am generous enough to believe he does not. When we see Anglomaniacs imitating the splendid intellectual life of Gladstone, the magnificent commonsense of Bright, the brilliant shrewdness of Beaconsfield, the CRIMSON, I take it, will not rebuke the tendency. For obvious reasons, however, it will be too much to expect from Anglomaniacs...
...cribbers as a class are found among those who are seeking the minimum mark requisite for passing. They reason that they are gaining no false glory, and are depriving no one of deserved prizes, by a few tricks which are regarded as shrewd rather than dishonest. They take no pains to conceal their method of gaining forty or fifty per cent., and even boast among their companions, of the cunning way in which they hood-winked the proctor...