Word: meaner
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...both "conduct unbecoming a gentleman" and a crime in no degree of less guilt that lying or cheating to gain profit or to defraud another of his property, does prevail to a certain extent in Harvard, as well as in other colleges, cannot be denied, and it is meaner than the acts of a swindler, in proportion as it is not amenable to the laws of the police courts...
...library and "half of his estate, being L800," to the college which the court had decided two years previously to establish at "New Town." After his gift however, the name of the town was changed to Cambridge. This is the extent of our knowledge of John Harvard. With these meaner records to guide the artist the statue must be formed...
...Those meaner doubts that me torment...
...unpleasant as fifteen. We need only quote the words of a Yale player, to show the animus. By way of apology, he said 'that he acknowledged that he played a low, dirty, mean game, and had always done so, and he believed that he played a dirtier, lower, meaner game than any man in the United States.' This grovelling explanation is sufficient. Its honesty is to be commended. In view of the facts, Harvard's suggestion is worthy of consideration, that Yale be left out until she learns to play respectably...