Word: harshest
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...suggest, no sympathy is due the men. They heedlessly took their risk of punishment; 'yes, more, as the event has proved, though they could hardly have anticipated such a result, they recklessly imperilled the cause of which they were the chosen guardians. They deserve punishment and the harshest censure from the public opinion of the College. But why such punishment, one that bears hardest, not on the culprits, but on the crew, and especially on its devoted captain and the hard-working coach, and on the University as a whole? Why not show some sense of proportion, some justice...