Word: staining
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they have been struggling along with frequent changes of mediocre coaches and little to show for it in the winning column. Now they have done with halfway measures and turn their wreckage over to the finest mind in football. Columbia has recognized that a fourth-class football team can stain the records of a first-class university...
...shown in the new rifle range under Smith Halls and the improved equipment and facilities afforded the other activities. Also the "weak sister", swimming, which has been holding back the other sports, has been dropped entirely, releasing men for other activities and removing what was becoming a permanent stain on the University's athletic record. With basketball's firm establishment and success has come greater publicity for all the minor sports, which has been a considerable factor in drawing new men into them...
...other terms frequently used--all in a very vague but uniformly defamatory manner. Yet not so long ago, these words were in perfectly good repute; and though it might stamp one as a crank and impractical idealist, to be a socialist or communist was not held to be a stain on one's character. Just so the little word "liberal" has come to "cover a multitude of sins", this time as a camouflage for less respected designations. Properly speaking, a liberal" is one who is free: free from bias and prejudice: broad and open-minded; free, above all, from extremes...
...face the crucial test that is to decide their place in sports collegiate. No easy task is theirs: the heat of competition has already tried the mettle of the Ithacan and Hanoverian and proved its worth. It will be a trial by fire, a fierce attempt to obliterate the stain of old defeat...
...inexpungible stain remains upon the class records of 1921 and 1922. Irreparable damage has been done innocent individuals; a worse dishonor rests upon the student body. No means may be found by which a fair opportunity will be given to candidates, premature estimate of whose relative standing in the class, judged by the election of Wednesday, must of necessity impair their chances. What is worse, upon the Seniors and Juniors collectively must fall the lasting shame of having failed in their duty to their fellows and their university...