Word: dishonorably
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...torn down without offering resistance. Yet despite this acceptance of their relationship, the Tigers still retain a certain unique character even today. Demonstrations of this character took place in 1949 when Princetonians overflowed their Whig Hall to hear their debating team argue that Women Should Choose Death Before Dishonor. Again, just last year, Princetonians revived their colonial history by bombarding West Point with leaflets inviting the cadets to an Indian Massacre. Princetonians have even devised a method for numbering their graduates in those unknown regions west of the Mississippi; they take a state's population in millions, divide...
Meanwhile, the Harvard Debate Council had its troubles. They had planned to engage two Cornell girls in a discussion on the topic: "Resolved, That girls should choose death before dishonor," with the men defending the negative. But despite an O.K. from the Dean of Women, the Cornell Dean of Men ruled out the debate on the technical grounds that the topic should have been filed with his office ten days...
Columbia University announced that it would "not even consider" admitting transfers. The University of Virginia wanted no one who had been "dropped or suspended from another college." Neither did Washington and Lee. Meanwhile, Pennsylvania State College was waiting to see "whether the Academy indicated 'discredit or dishonor' on the transcript" before making up its mind...
...perhaps the indoor record for mendacity. The only thing right was my name. He moderated the charges twice in the course of a few days to almost nothing, thus admitting his complete irresponsibility. It seems to me that his methods are a decided menace to the Republican party, a dishonor to the United States Senate, and a positive danger to America at this critical time...
...have brought dishonor on the name you bear . . . and tragedy upon your family . . . You have been disloyal to the country which has nourished you . . . My observation of you during the trial and my knowledge of the facts convince me that the seeds of disloyalty still find root within your breast." Judy, too, got 15 years. With the sentence she had received for espionage in Washington last summer, it added up to a maximum...