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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/3/1886 | See Source »

...that he is capable of a deed of this sort, does not long care to display his takent here at Harvard. He finds that his fellow-students do not appreciate fun of that kind. If he does continue, however, in these sorry exbibitions of his wit, it conveys a stigma upon the bublic sentiment of decency in his frieuds, and, in a less degree, in his class. We know that it is a human failing to encourage anything. however silly, that is done in defiance of anthority; but harvard men have hitherto been free from this failing in its extreme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/15/1884 | See Source »

...reduce the weight of a man and get the fat off him, it must be done by diet and exercise, for all the sweating in the world would not take off fat. The use of alcohol was condemned, and by its use Dr. Sargent said men had put a stigma on athletics which it would take centuries to wipe out. In the New England climate he thought a little lager beer was good, and would do far less hurt than coffee, but notwithstanding there was a conflict of opinion as to the use of tobacco, he opposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/26/1883 | See Source »

...when they take time to think - not to see the justice of Dr. Crosby's remarks as to the hard and painful dilemma in which their poorer class-fellows are placed by the present system. They have either to contribute what they cannot spare or undergo the reproach and stigma of meanness. One word in conclusion. Many - if not most - of the best and noblest men of old England, during the past sixty or seventy years, were good at the oar, at foot-ball, at cricket; but they did not allow those games to encroach on their more serious duties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/12/1882 | See Source »

...parts of "The Ticket-of-Leave Man," and "No Thoroughfare." The support given him by the Stock Company of the Globe was probably as strong as he ever had the good fortune to receive; and by their means the several plays in which he appeared were relieved from the stigma of absolute dulness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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