Word: lied
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...college-bred men, the statement that undergraduate literary work fails to attain a higher standard because the would-be writer "grows stale" seems open to doubt. Is not this failure rather due to a somewhat prevailing tendency among young writers to be ambitious to consider subjects which lie outside of their little life experiences, and to which they can at best impart but a supperficial atmosphere? To be concrete, college literature tends to be too ambitious. If the undergradate aspirant would narrow his point of view and condescend to smaller subjects which form a part of his everyday life...
...will admit as soon as any one that some vile stories greatly to the discredit of Aarvard have appeared in the papers, but I am absolutely sure that no Harvard man would lie about his college. The motto "Veritas," behind which the writer in the Graduates' Magazine would hide, is as dear to the student correspondent as to any other undergraduate, or to any graduate; and has, I contend, been as well upheld...
...double standard,-a shifting for the convenience of the moment, from the character of a responsible man to the character of an irresponsible boy. "The administrative officers," says he, "accept without question a student's word: they assume that he is a gentleman and that a gentleman does not lie; if, as happens now and then, he is not a gentleman and does lie, they had rather, nevertheless, be fooled sometimes than be suspicious always (and be fooled quite as often). Frankly treated, the student is usually frank himself; our undergraduates are, in general, excellent follows to deal with...
...enthusiasm shown in Harvard during the campaign, now over, will do much to give the lie to those who assert that college men in general, and Harvard men in particular, hold themselves aloof from politics and have not the welfare of the country at heart-in other words, that they are not loyal. Harvard men have sometimes been called dilletantes, "gentlemen" rather than men deeply interested in their fellow men and in the political and social welfare of the nation...
...this creation of a class spirit that the greatest good of the annual dinners would lie. The feeling of a common interest, and of a common loyalty and brotherhood, which they would bring about, would make college life fuller, more interesting and more beneficial for the individuals of the class, and would make the class as a body stronger and more successful...