Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rather startled tone: "I - I beg your pardon, Miss M. - I was not - aw - aware that I lay open to any such suspicion...
...amateurs, and it may be predicted that wherever the professional element creeps in, their enthusiasm and interest will die out. A professional almost invariably becomes the tool of pool-makers and rowdies, and even under the most favorable circumstances he has great difficulty in keeping his integrity above suspicion. The amateur, on the other hand, is free from these annoyances; he is supposed to enter into athletics from a gentlemanly desire to excel in them, and he commands the interest of all those who like to witness contests where there is no doubt of the earnestness and honesty...
...represented in so important a body as the Board of Overseers. It is undesirable to take a step which shall in any way tend to diminish the number of students at Harvard, to impair the interest which graduates feel in the University, or to increase the all too prevalent suspicion that the authorities of the University desire to maintain a close corporation. If the statutes of the Board of Overseers cannot be interpreted, like those of other colleges, to admit members who are not resident in the State, the liberal progress of the University demands a change in the statutes...