Word: slur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questionnaire that a dishonest man cannot circumvent; and the man who wavers between honesty and dishonesty disposes with an easy conscience of questions that he regards as nobody's business but his own. A third man, high-spirited and honorable, resents what he naturally construes as a slur on his good name. Though he will not lie, he has not yet learned that in belonging to a suspected class he himself is not necessarily suspected; that even if he is suspected he is submitting to the common lot of all who move in the limelight; and that not looking...
...School of Citizenship. Just what its functions are to be has not been made clear; but it brings to mind a remark sometimes heard among Yale men, to the effect that Yale trains for citizenship while Harvard trains for scholarship. No doubt this statement is intended somewhat as a slur, and our first impulse is to deny its truth. But second thought suggests that perhaps it is more complimentary than was intended. The question is, simply, What do we mean by citizenship...