Word: indiscreetness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seems as if the Harvard faculty, with the most laudable intentions, had tried to do too much. Castiron rules to cover every kind of sport, with members of the faculty authorized to superintend all inter-collegiate contests, convey the impression that the students must be a very headstrong and indiscreet set of young men to need such careful watching. A simple set of rules providing that professional athletes shall not be employed to instruct undergraduates, that no games shall be played with professionals, and that the rules of foot-ball shall be modified so as to do away...
...mean, we must remonstrate with our esteemed contemporary for permitting such dangerous secrets to be thus rudely brought to the garish light of day in its columns. It is such things as these that fasten the sligma of indiscretion and irresponsibility upon the college press. The News has been indiscreet; let it reform...
...that their privileges are being violated. Undergraduates are not apt to accept with any degree of grace, dictation from their alumni, believing as they do that they themselves are reasonable beings and can institute reforms if reforms be needed. The undergraduates of Harvard have already had a taste of indiscreet graduate interference in the matter of the disputed Colombia race and the dose, to say the least, was not palatable. In the same way the Yale seniors will probably resent any interference in their society system...
...Sorosis wore a black velvet walking suit and pearl-colored gloves. (Just here I should very much like to know why it is that women with too much figure or no figure at all invariably choose to display their ample or awkward proportions in that most indiscreet material - black velvet.) I have often thought that some of these idiosyncrasies of dress were owing to the smallness of our mirrors. We can only see the bust in the looking-glass, and the consequence is that not only women, but men, also, are apt to wear a fortune in diamonds and other...