Word: reproaches
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Perhaps there is no reproach which has been more constantly cast in the teeth of Harvard men than that of favoritism in the selection of athletic teams. Newspapers are eager for sensation, unsuccessful candidates are apt to blame anything but themselves; and people seem somehow to forget that a coach's or a captain's reputation depends on his using the best men available...
...Corporation could use the income of additional endowments to the amount of ten millions of dollars for the satisfaction of none but well-known and urgent wants." It seems a direct reproach to the many rich Harvard graduates, of which Harvard has more probably than any other university in the land, that it should suffer so severely for the means to carry out the plans so wisely and broadly conceived to make it a complete university, doing the most that it is capable of in the field of education...
...prices of 25 cents to 50 cents for seats, is it surprising that all Boston and its environs flock there to be entertained? The patronage is distinctly high class, as would be expected from the singing of the best music, with every feature of the stage show above reproach. The promenade concerts between the acts by the string band in the foyer are an enjoyable diversion. The orchestra and chorus, both enlarged for the summer productions, are trained to high excellence, and under the efficient leadership of Max Hirschfeld are gaining in entertaining power every...
This state of things is wrong. The athlete who denied his services to the College would meet with reproach on every hand. It should be the same with the literary man Every student of ability should fell it incumbent on him to spend his efforts in Harvard's service, it matters not in what direction. Selfishness in witholding power by which the College might profit is of all kinds the worst. We do not doubt that a little more strenuous effort would often rouse the literary power, weakened by disuse, and turn it to the benefit of the College periodicals...
...receipt of the sum of $70,000 bequeathed by the late Judge Billings for the establishment of a fund to endow a professorship in English literature. As the CRIMSON editorially remarked last week, both the Faculty and students are united in their efforts to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education...