Word: shameful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entirely a calamity. On the contrary the character of the play and what it indicates for the future is most encouraging. We have been defeated it is true, but we have been defeated in a game so magnificently and so nobly fought that defeat can bring no shame. Seldom has Harvard been represented so handsomely on the football field; and when we realize, moreover what the eleven has done the last few weeks, and compare its work in former games with that of Saturday, we must all feel an admiration for men who can work with such earnestness and determination...
Social questions are in reality, moral ones. Even behind all economic and political questions, lies the fact that the conscience of the country is pricked with shame. All these things find a partial solution in an attempt to form an ethical theory...
...excellent, very well worked up, though it would hardly be proper in a co-educational college; the fourth is good; the fifth is fair, but the sixth is bad and wholly untrue to Harvard life. We are not thoroughly barbarous here. Manliness and gentleness go hand in hand and shame at helping a little boy argues a childish and indecent state of things which does not exist...
...time of the year it is true, but the college must learn some time or other that if it ever wants to accomplish anything it will have to undergo a little self-sacrifice. There probably is not a man in Harvard who would not call it the greatest shame if the crew were prevented from going to New London merely because the students were not open handed enough to send it down; and yet there were only eighteen men, we understand, out of the whole university who showed that they actually cared to put themselves out sufficiently for the sake...
Yesterday the captain of the senior class crew dismissed two of his men for breaking training. If these two men could realize the light in which their class and the college now regard them, their natural sentiment of shame for their dishonorable action would have united to it a feeling of dismay at learning how utterly they have lost the respect of their fellows...