Word: slur
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...private performance of the one-act play "Die Schul Reiterin" was given by the Deutscher Verein last evening in the Newtowne Club House. The performance went off with a great deal of spirit and without any perceptible hitches. There was a tendency, however, to speak rapidly and to slur many of the words and phrases. H. B. Stanton 1900 and J. W. Frothingham '99 played their parts most intelligently and with least exaggeration...
...last and most important reason against the action of the directors is that it casts a slur upon the whole Harvard Dining Association. The matter will be made public in the shape that the gallery at Memorial Hall was closed because the students acted ungentlemanly towards visitors. Such an accusation against the whole association would be false, but its falsity would not remove the slur that rests upon the well-behaved members of the association...
...aside yesterday in a way that is more than likely to do a great deal of harm to the University. The men who made such a disgraceful spectacle of themselves in Memorial Hall yesterday besides behaving worse than children did one of those things which in itself casts a slur upon the Harvard character and which with all of the necessary exaggerations added is sure to do so much harm to the college abroad. If men are not well bred enough to treat visitors as they should be treated, it seems high time that the gallery of Memorial should...
...regulation to carry out the provisions of this statute; the Faculty therefore felt that they had no right to grant a petition which would make the statute of the higher body inoperative. It seemed, moreover, as we have been told, that Harvard being a University, it would be a slur on the earnest spirit of the students if extra days were added to a recess merely because there are very few recitations to attend to. This latter argument seems somewhat weak. Saturday afternoon has always been considered the proper time for recreation, surely no one can be expected to work...