Word: reproaching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
Professor Peabody read a portion of the third chapter of the first epistle to the Corinthians. He spoke of vesper services, and of the motives which have been the underlying inspiration of them, He defined these motives as self reproach and self respect. These motives come to every man, the one from below urging him to rise to a sense of his obligations, the other from above beckoning him on into the realms of opportunity. The true self respect does not rise out of the man himself, as an isolated being, but out of his consciousness that only from...
...show this view to be incorrect. He notes that in teaching geology in the field, walks which twenty years ago surpassed the pedestrian powers of one-half of his students are now quite within their abilities. He notes that a poor physical condition is now a matter of reproach to a student, which he feels obliged to explain in some way. He says, decidedly: 'There can be no question in my mind that the physical condition of the average student at Harvard College is vastly better than it was a score of years...