Word: dishonors
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...relic can never be of the slightest value to the person who stole it; and its possession can bring with it nothing but dishonor...
...students. Instructors and students meet on a common ground of confidence and of scholarly ambition. Athletics have their place. They encourage manliness, pluck, perseverance, honor, self-control. Defeat on the field is to be borne in as manly a way as victory. Yale is taught never to dishonor itself in defeat. It is always to assume victory. It puts high a generous heroism, a magnanimous appreciation of others...
...noticeable that Shakespeare's royal personages are as a rule less happy than his lower characters, and it seems strange that he should have dared to point out all the unhappiness and dishonor and illegality of their reigns. It must be remembered in explanation that his plays were written and acted at a time of England's greatest prosperity, when they gained rather than lost by the dark contrast they presented...
...instead of at the beginning, or he may stop his lecture and ask embarrassing questions. In short, Harvard College may be turned into a reform school for inculcating civility and decency of manner. This, of course, will never be done and if the students persist in this course of dishonor probably the faculty will make no regulation to stop it. Yet what sort of business is this for college men? How much strength of character, how much manliness, does such action show? None. Is it up to the standard of American college life? Certainly not. The students themselves, those...
...sides, - the Indian is kept out of the American life, and the white man is kept out of the Indian's land. The result is that he sees he must do right by the Indian, that he must educate him for a place in our civilization. The century of dishonor, as it has been called, has really been a century of terrible mistakes. Out of those mistakes the country has gradually learnt the only proper and successful way of solving the problem, and that way has been shown to be simply giving the Indian his proper place in our social...