Word: frown
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...president speaks of the "trickery condoned by a public opinion which demands victory." This is certainly not a prevalent abuse; if it exists at all it is among a very small element in our college world. The spirit of fairness and honor, of which most colleges boast, would soon frown down any "trickery"; and, if that potent factor in a college world-public opinion-frowns upon "trickery," how can it exist? In spite of all this, however, we believe with President Eliot that there is much that is rotten in our athletic system, and we call upon public opinion...
...athletics and our moral tone serious evil and it is right that an outcry should be made against it. Men will make wagers until doomsday, it may be urged, but still when we appreciate that the custom is injuring our athletic career we are culpable if we do not frown upon it. For what consequence is our little excitement in comparison with the cause of an honorable course on the athletic field? We believe with Mr. Wendell on this subject as we did on the former, this a reform by the students, the other a recognition by the faculty, that...
...long history of Harvard College and its generations of men, that slowly, mysteriously, but at last very clearly there shapes itself as we look, as the great outcome of the whole, a majestic being which we call the college, with human features and capacities, with eyes to smile or frown on us, with a heart to love us, with a will to rule us and to fix standards for our life...
...Harvard student is proverbially fond of fault finding. Nothing is more to his taste than a dignified protest against some great and crying evil, or an undignified but lively "kick" against some minor form of grievance. The latest abuse upon which student opinion has felt itself obliged to frown may be classed with the smaller annoyances of college life. It seems that the students who have elected courses requiring their presence at the Agassiz Museum are subjected to great annoyance by the custom of some of the instructors of detaining their sections until the hour has fully expired. By this...
...lover of the good and manly game of foot ball, allow me to enter my protest against any rash condemnation of the game. I am sadly aware that the present tendency is to emasculate all games and exercises, and frown on strength and courage as old fashioned things, relics of the dark ages; to teach our youth that all games requiring these qualities are brutal and degrading...