Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...think seriously of taking up music as a profession. Music was then considered to be rather an idle occupation, more like amusement than serious work, and the life of a musician did not present an attractive prospect. But of late years music has been more free from this stigma, and all the arts are meeting with public appreciation. A musician cannot become a rich man, but he may be a very happy one. Unless he has an independent income, he must do more or less teaching, and, indeed, ability to teach is a requirement of the greatest importance...
...always measured by its athletic victories during its first year in college, and no victory is of more importance, from the difficulty and rarety of its attainment, than the great "fence game" at New Haven. For any Yale freshman class to be deprived of the fence is a stigma of which little conception can be formed here, and we may be sure that Yale will strain every nerve to gain possession of those sacred wooden bars before they are swept away (as they must be shortly) and become a relic of the past. The more honor, then, to our freshmen...
Secondly, Harvard is in decadence, temporary of course, in almost all athletics. Can our freshmen afford thus to let the stigma of cowardice be cast upon them by refusing Yale admission into this race, when Columbia has set the example of her willingness? They cannot. If the Thames course is wide enough, Yale should be admitted without doubt. The question, we have been told, rests with the class of '90. If they do not admit them "they do it with their eyes open to the consequences...
...lecturer began by illustrating the internal mechanism of a flower. Every flower contains stamens and pistils, - the male and female organs of generation, - and an ovary or calyx in which the fruit or seed is generated. The, stamen is the pollen producing organ; this, when placed on the stigma and style of the pistil, excites the secretions of that body which make their way to the ovary to the undeveloped seeds within. The lecturer divided flowers into four groups: those self-fertilizing, and thost fertilized by wind, water, and animal life...
Prof. Palmer yesterday, stated to the members of Philosophy 4 that the volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica recently taken from the library had been returned, and that he had clearly demonstrated that no member of that course had been guilty of the theft thus removing the stigma that had been placed upon the students in that course...