Word: stigmas
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...seems even less creditable than that of the administration. To refuse to act because of a belief that one is right, is understandable. To acknowledge a glaring and discreditable wrong and to refuse to repair it, is incredible. We feel, with the CRIMSON, that the incident is Harvard's stigma and is indefensible, but we propose to act. It is queer that we should be charged with adding to the stigma by publicity. The CRIMSON has acknowledged a glaring injustice and only a perverted view could see an open avowal and correction of the wrong as unfavorable in the public...
...resultant inquisitiveness of the world into a private matter which should be solved primarily by Harvard if she is to maintain, in any sense of the word, her "specific code" of "enlightenedness, generous and fine sportsmanship, and pioneering in social progress," as the letter phrases it. The stigma is Harvard's; and it should be scrubbed out in private...
...bond does not die," wrote the B. C. F. B. to Mr. Wickersham. "The repudiation was and is unconstitutional from the Federal and State viewpoints and the matter can never be finally closed while the bonds remain unredeemed. In the case of the State the stigma of repudiation is perpetuated during the existence of the dishonored issue which bears the seal of its sovereignty. If a State be part of the Federal Union a reflection is cast upon the protective sovereignty which encircles...
...Theological Seminary: "I go about in the colleges now and I have to report to young women. If the Church is not going to keep pace with modern society and ' give women the right of becoming pastors, we are going to lose their support. They feel that a stigma is placed on them...
Pastor Henry Burnham Kirkland of Manhattan's North Church: "Our Lord included no women when He selected His twelve Apostles. ... To accept them would place a stigma much greater on our dear Lord. I am convinced that 90% of the women don't want it, and that the other 10% are the agitators. Most of the cults have been started by women. Who started Christian Science, Unity, and Theosophy? A woman...