Word: stigmas
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...removed that unjust and unfair splitting up of the two upper classes into groups which form the "big clubs" and the "little clubs"; there will be obliterated the unwarrantable award which comes to a man when elected to a so-called "big club"; there will be eliminated the stigma which attaches to membership in no club; there will be destroyed that feeling of almost insignificance which members of small clubs have, so far as affects their association with members of the big clubs...
...class is relieved from the stigma of indifference which its vote for Student Council brought upon it. Practically six times as many men voted yesterday as voted then...
...moved to ask, is this public stigma fastened upon the Philistine who has never studied Latin, or upon that more unfortunate person who failed to study it enough? The punishment meted out in Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" has always seemed to us eminently fitting; yet we had never thought the mere non-Latinist deserved such a brand. But perhaps it is for the benefit of the public. Peter Barnum said the public liked to be fooled; and we certainly fool the public with our pompous scientific degree. Meanwhile, the initiated know that the yellow crow's-foot indicates "not knowledge...
...which to run off with the woman he loves, who is married to a brute of a husband. His deed is discovered and he is summoned before the court, tried, sentenced, and imprisoned. After three years he is freed again and hunts for a job, followed everywhere by the stigma of his prison term. He finds Ruth Honeywill, the woman he loves, the forced mistress of another man, supporting herself and children in this way. The distrust of the police for a former criminal draws him into the net once more and rather than face such misery and degradation...
...Gardner to make the first address. He declared that the change in the status of the sport would benefit it by increasing its importance in the eyes of the Athletic Committee, by making members of the team eligible to the Varsity Club, and by removing from the sport the stigma of the appellation minor. The number of rinks in this country, the extent of the sport, and undergraduate interest in it warrant the proposed change. Twenty-one colleges, 32 private schools and 44 public schools now play hockey regularly. In particular, Harvard's record of 10 victories and three defeats...