Word: thugs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...abolishing many barbarisms of the past. She has dealt death blows to hazing and other forms of brutality. Why? Because Harvard men have realized that such practices are degrading, that the spirit that prompts them is meanness and cowardice. The men most eminently fitted for hazing was the "thug." Of course, there were many very admirable men that took part in hazing, but they were carried along by public opinion. It is to athletics, principally, that is due the credit for the newer and manlier public sentiment...