Word: blameless
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...instance, last night at the Hasty Pudding Club, where the Harvard Dramatic Society gave its fall production, there were all the same sights usual just a year or two ago. There was the eagle-eyed mama, chaperoning her daughter; the wild company of the mild, harmless, and altogether blameless Harvard boy who sat on the other side of mamma and imagined he was seeing life...
...those days boys as young as twelve often came to college, the entrance requirements were far from easy. To be admitted one had to be able to read and speak Latin and Greek, to compose Latin verse, to be well instructed in mathematics and philosophy, and to be "blameless in acts and conversation...
...record shows in addition to the above, "Whoever shall be able to read, construe & parse ordinary Greek, as in the New Testament, Socrates or such like, and be skilled in making Latin verse and in the rules of Prosodia; Having withall good Testimony of his past blameless behaviour, shall be looked upon as qualified for Admission into Harvard College...