Word: slurs
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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...
...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...