Word: rotten
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...number of editorials are devoted to the result of the mass-meeting of the 20th of last month. Considering the rotten condition of college athletics the action of Harvard in withdrawing from the Intercollegiate Foot Ball association was not untimely, and if her motives are pure, she deserves great praise. The Advocate fears, however, that the students were influenced just as much by pique at a college which has just defeated Harvard as by any desire for purity in athletics. In regard to the withdrawal from the league, Harvard's position is "frank and honorable." The resolution to withdraw...
...were found to be totally inadequate for the needs of the crowd coming out see the championship football games, and many and loud were the complaints on that score. The spectators will now have every opportunity of viewing a game with comfort, untormented by the constant fear of some rotten plank giving way under foot. We understand that the north side of the field will be improved in the same way, as the seats there are in an extremely dilapidated condition...
...fairness and honor, of which most colleges boast, would soon frown down any "trickery"; and, if that potent factor in a college world-public opinion-frowns upon "trickery," how can it exist? In spite of all this, however, we believe with President Eliot that there is much that is rotten in our athletic system, and we call upon public opinion to eradicate that rottenness...
...leavens it, because it raises man and his surroundings out of the earthly considerations that engulf him; it is the half of life, because through its influence the life of cities is preserved. London and New York have places where religion has not come, and these are festering and rotten. It is the light of life, because by Christianity we may see the way to the real life to come...
...face squarely. It is not alone in the celebration of "Bloody Monday" that an undesirable spirit is shown, in other ways and at other times the same spirit presents itself. There are few Harvard men who have not heard fathers complain that the social system in Cambridge was so rotten that they would never send another son here. After making allowance for exaggeration, there is still much which should make those who are aiding in the perpetuation of "a rotten social system" pause a moment to consider whether they have any right-moral or otherwise-to make Cambridge unfit...