Word: dishonor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...except, as it seems, the managers themselves, it was apparent that the suggestion was made with the best of intentions. However, if any one in addition to the '97 manager feels called upon to file an affidavit, the CRIMSON will be glad to clear his fair name of all dishonor...
...fortify them we must assume a vast, expensive and unncessary armament; to leave them defenceless we will invite national dishonor and disgrace. As Carl Schurz has said, "our defensive position is today unassailable, and Hawaii would be our Achilles' heel...
...relic can never be of the slightest value to the person who stole it; and its possession can bring with it nothing but dishonor...
...students. Instructors and students meet on a common ground of confidence and of scholarly ambition. Athletics have their place. They encourage manliness, pluck, perseverance, honor, self-control. Defeat on the field is to be borne in as manly a way as victory. Yale is taught never to dishonor itself in defeat. It is always to assume victory. It puts high a generous heroism, a magnanimous appreciation of others...
...noticeable that Shakespeare's royal personages are as a rule less happy than his lower characters, and it seems strange that he should have dared to point out all the unhappiness and dishonor and illegality of their reigns. It must be remembered in explanation that his plays were written and acted at a time of England's greatest prosperity, when they gained rather than lost by the dark contrast they presented...