Word: reproacher
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...undegraduate rule meant a curtailment of the possibilities of amateur sport, and that such curtailment was unnecessary. A bona fide student-one doing some real work with some definite degree as his object-is to be welcomed, whether from college or professional school. Amateur sport wants only men above reproach, but it wants all these attainable...
...wish peace and happiness, but how can we secure it. The conflict between the good and the bad is torture, and Christ's pure life is a terrible reproach to us. Too often a man can't stand the struggle, and sinks himself deeper in his lusts to stifle conscience. This is the true killing of Christ...
...published in another column it is easy to see what influences are at work to undermine the position which Harvard has assumed upon the athletic question. It is difficult, however, to incriminate her in this fashion. Harvard makes no claim that she has in the past been above reproach. She, too, though in a somewhat less degree than some of her sister colleges is open to criticism for the past. She does maintain, however, that her actions this year have been straightforward and honest, and of this she certainly has a right to be proud. We thank Mr. Hooper...
...governing intercollegiate athletics. Indeed she seems to have been unscrupulously careful concerning these since they were her only safeguard. But it must not be forgotten that she has at the same time disobeyed the spirit of the law. If, for example, her players had been above reproach surely the manly and ultimately the least compromising course would have been for her to submit them to the oral examination and then to have urged the technicality, if she so chose. Her eagerness to avoid the oral examination, and the direct refusal of one of her players to submit to the same...
...expense in order that Harvard may not forfeit the game, which she is bound in honor to play, and which is financially necessary to the Lehigh team. We cannot praise such action too highly, for the men who go to Lehigh will save one of our University teams from reproach...