Word: discreditable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...number of the students who have this year elected any of the higher courses in mathematics is a discredit to the institution. Only five have elected Integral Calculus; the course in analytic mechanics is not taken at all; and no one of the other courses has more than three or four men in it. A department which gives advanced instruction to less than three per cent of each class would seem to be of doubtful use to a university. Mathematics has always been thought to give a fine mental training; but, if this training be accessible...
Since there will always be persons without sufficient judgment to discredit general remarks, those who pretend to be liberally educated should avoid them for the sake of their own reputation for common-sense. A man can make more sweeping assertions in five minutes than he could prove in a lifetime, and a habit of doing so is almost invariably a sign of an immature mind and a narrow judgment...
...much the most successful of the clubs, and the secret of its success as well as of the interest taken in its crews has been the quality and duration of the training which the club has done. If we are to have races this spring which will not utterly discredit boating at Harvard, the clubs must begin work at an early date. It has been said that there is no hurry; but if matters are not hurried we shall see a repetition of the slipshod races of last year. The cups to be offered in the spring will...
...education than matters of art. "There is not a building, nor a corner of a building," said Mr. Norton not long ago, "with which a Harvard man can have any pleasant associations from beauty of architecture." But this is not all, nor is it what is most to our discredit...
That the enterprising men who have managed this matter may not be deterred from punishing the shopkeepers by the consciousness that through themselves some little discredit may be reflected upon the students at large, that the credulity of their victims may be so strengthened that they will pay to have their advertisements printed even on the bills of fare at the commons, and that thus we may be most fully avenged, - is my heartfelt prayer...