Word: shame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON:- There are few sports more worty of encouragement or which receive less support from the members of the University than cricket. It is a shame that this game which has been acknowledged for centuries to be a gentleman's sport should be so wantonly overlooked here. Few men probably realize what the cricket eleven has done, or what it might do, if it received its share of support from the students. Beginning yearly with a few good cricketers the eleven is filled up with raw men who practice faithfully by themselves unnoticed and disregarded...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON: - It is not only the blush of indignation but the blush of shame that should come to our faces, when, looking over the register in the college library, we see boldly written upon its pages, without the slightest attempt at imitation, the ostensible signature of a celebrity, who has not visited Harvard College...
...this be the work of a visitor to our university, we blush with indignation at his imprudent and unscrupulous liberty; if it be the work of a student, which we sincerely trust it is not, we blush with shame to think that one of our number can be guilty of an act so small, so utterly beneath contempt, and, worse than all, so morally wrong. The writer of the signature may have thought that he was perpetrating a huge joke in thus attempting to deceive whoever might look over the register; but a short residence among us would soon teach...
...buildings and lands. Now that Yale is "really and truly" a university, hope is cherished on every side that her curriculum will prove the reality and truth of her claim to a broader field of work than is possible for a college as such. Her methods may now without shame to her children, embrace teaching that is distinctively "university" so far as that term comprehends an advance over the old-time collegiate instruction. The instruction which lays down rules now long proved to be false in spirit and practice, must pass to give place to a wiser teaching. To Yale...
...last chance, for the books must be closed at noon. Everything promises a thorough success in the celebration, and it is now simply a question as to how that success may best be advanced. It is every man's duty to take part in the procession, It is a shame that the two upper classes are the most lax in signing, - the two classes which are the legitimate leaders. No one student can alter the success new assured, but every additional name lends new weight and influence...