Word: meanest
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...future. The substitutes of the team and two or three others followed the game around the field and accused the umpire of cheating at every decision he made against the Wesleyan team, while the crowd howled and hissed a chorus. The men on the team itself resorted to the meanest tricks "muckerism" could suggest to injure...
...disgraceful treatment which used sometimes, long ago, to be accorded our nine when they played games away from home. Until the game of last Monday with the University of Pennsylvania, we had hoped that the time when a visiting nine would be subjected to the worst and meanest kind of "muckerism" was a thing of the past, but in this respect the students of the University of Pennsylvania seem to be far behind the age. In the first place, it was most ungentlemanly and undignified to print on the posters announcing the match that "Harvard say, we cannot play good...
...meanest man in college has been discovered. He scratched the address from the face of one of the prayer petition postals, wrote another address on it, scratched the printed matter from the back, wrote a private message on it and mailed...
...policy of the board of overseers in refusing to confer the customary degree upon Governor Butler is at present much divided. But, as to Butler's conduct since the vote of the board was announced, there can be no difference of opinion. That he should impute the meanest of motives to his opponents, and should indulge in the most scurrilous language in relation to their action, is by no means surprising nor unexpected when we consider the notorious character of the man and the semi-political bearing of the occasion. But that, after the manner of the cheapest politician...
...greatest day of the year for the Harvard student finally proved itself to be the very smallest and meanest. "No game" and "no race" proved a most disheartening programme for both visitors and students. The ill-luck of the Yale nine and of the men who accompanied them is even more to be commiserated. The college certainly regrets the unfortunate outcome of her long-cherished expectations most sincerely...