Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...role which he has chosen. No one has more respect than we have for those who support themselves through college in a legitimate way. The member of '79 who supported himself for two years by selling books was thoroughly respected by all who knew him, and any slur cast upon him would have been resented by every decent man. For Mr. Moses King, however, we have no respect, and we feel sure that public opinion is with us. In the name of the students of Harvard College we repudiate him and his Register...
...shall not be suspected of any wish to palliate any real blunder made by Mr. Allen or by any one else. But when editors of respectable magazines admit into them articles of which the chief aim appears to be a slur at Harvard College, they should see that the task is properly done, - for their own credit. Harvard's will take care of itself...
...barbarous inhabitants of Thimble Rig, a neighboring town, in order to cast a slur on the founder of this new regime, maliciously published in the Weekly Eavesdropper, the scurrilous organ of that benighted town, the paragraph which heads my letter...
...teachers and guardians of the young men," we can only suggest the impracticability of our President being the umpire in a boat-race, or our Professors a police force to prevent pool-selling on the banks. No one denies that a regatta has many objectionable concomitants, but a slur is cast upon the collegians' character in supposing that they associate with blacklegs, or that they are at all influenced by them, when, in fact, nothing would better please the undergraduate than that such persons should be banished from regattas...
...Magenta. Its weak points are many, and they would at once be revealed by a careful analysis both of its course of thought and of its general style. While purporting to be a defence of Harvard students, it is manifestly a protest against certain religious opinions, and a slur cast, in one case upon the expressions, in the other upon the doctrinal views, of two eminent Christian men. The daily papers, Messrs. Editors, have quite sufficiently misrepresented the doctrinal views of the recent candidate for the bishopric of Massachusetts, and we need not re-echo their hasty judgments...