Word: swindler
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...case in particular has come to my notice of a graduate giving seminars in subjects which he was utterly unfit to teach. Now, such a man may think he is a very able fellow to be earning money in such ways, but to any candid mind he is a swindler. I speak of this simply to warn freshmen against going to seminars indiscriminately. Let me add that I am not in any way a rival to seminar givers, nor have I ever been to them for help; I give my facts entirely as some friends gave them...
There is a plausable swindler going about college representing himself as a journalist in needy circumstances. He has already succeeded in making considerable money by his representation and men are warned to be on their guard against...
...crime in no degree of less guilt that lying or cheating to gain profit or to defraud another of his property, does prevail to a certain extent in Harvard, as well as in other colleges, cannot be denied, and it is meaner than the acts of a swindler, in proportion as it is not amenable to the laws of the police courts...
...Corners, Massachusetts, writes to the Clipper of November 19, that no such a person as Scoville lives, or ever has lived, at that place. The Spirit of November 26 gives Scoville the choice of the following three names as applied to himself, - a myth, a fool, or a swindler...