Word: stigmas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirits have even gone so far as to refer to "Hennes essey House". This jaunty tale symbolizes the democratic spirit of Kirkland, which has less of the boarding school and social elements represented than the other Houses. It has been considered by many as a social desert and a stigma has been attached to its name. This attitude will become tempered in time. The predominance of Economics in the House although slight may easily become permanent. As has been said before, Kirkland House labors under physical handicaps. If it is to take its place as a ranking House it must...
...occasion even more when the news reaches groups of Harvard men throughout the country. He is not the first Harvard coach to be connected with an outside athletic enterprise and some of the present coaches have other sport relations. But the boxing game has come to have a certain stigma attached to it and it will be hard for many to reconcile the fact that Harvard's name and the name of one of her head coaches will be mentioned continually in connection with professional boxing, which today is less an athletic pursuit and more a well controlled "racket...
...indications Japan and America were gradually drawing together again. But rapprochement would be extremely difficult now. The Japanese have always been sensitive to American criticism. They will have only themselves to blame if the stigma which the exclusion act puts on them remains many years longer in the present situation than it otherwise would...
...there (Class of 1917), Princeton University was called a "country club." This was partly because Princeton is a pleasant countryside community, partly because its undergraduates were supposed to loll about with smooth hair and natty clothes indulging their social instincts. In the decade after the War. the "country club" stigma wore off. This was principally because Princeton could then beat Yale and Harvard at football. There were giants in those great days- "Stan" Keck, "Al" Wittmer, "Hank" Garrity, Don Lourie, Herb Treat, Ed McMillan, "Pink" Baker,- Howell van Gerbig- and Princeton's alumni were happy. But then Princeton began...
...Commission once interested itself in the discovery that International Paper & Power Co. held substantial notes of 13 U. S. dailies (TIME, May 13, 1929 et seq.). Observers wondered about Oilman Doherty's motive. Had he rushed into the Journal-Post in the heat of wrath, unmindful of the stigma attaching to a "kept" newspaper and all that appears in it? Or had he coolly reckoned that by walking in the front door in broad daylight, he would forestall attacks upon his and the paper's virtue? Although it declined to get excited, the New York Times opined that...