Word: shame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...probably become still more prominent. In this country these titles have degenerated into empty forms with far less meaning than the Prof. we see prefixed to the names of sleight of hand performers, roller-skaters, tight-rope walkers, etc. As President Gilman says, they have become the 'sham and shame' of American colleges. Every so-called university and college, no matter what its standing, the 'University of Cohosh' as well as Johns Hopkins or Harvard, has the power of conferring these degrees. To the outside world, that received from one is as good as the from the other...
...deal with conduct in each other of which they disapprove, in a way of which we have now hardly a foretaste. Public opinion in Harvard College is to-day omnipotent in matters of outward form, dress, manners, language, etc. But I think no one will deny that it is shame-faced and cowardly and too often unwilling to raise its voice where deeper matters are concerned. This passivity of public opinion here is the great obstacle to investing our students with power, and one of the most damaging things to the college in the eyes of the outer world...
...remove their hats. The stamping which greeted them was simply outrageous, and its authors well deserved the hisses showered upon them by the more staid of the members. Although the greater number of men who engaged in the sport were freshmen, a considerable number of upper-classmen, shame be upon them, encouraged the mischief-making youngsters by stamping themselves. The head waiter knows his busines well enough to correct any breaches of etiquette which visitors to the hall may make, and it is not necessary for freshmen, or upper-classmen of an equally youthful cast of mind, to take upon...
...thrust stealthily forward out of the darkness into the light of the window,-and had a look of meanness and cruelty which I would put my eyes out rather than see again. The remembrance of that distorted likeness gives me, even now, a feeling of terror and shame...
...meeting of the Alumni of Brown, of Boston and vicinity, President Robinson expressed himself as follows on the subject of athletics: "The students composing these bodies (foot ball and base ball teams), make study a secondary consideration. This I submit is a prodigious shame throughout the whole country. (Great applause.) I believe in a gymnasium, where every student will be compelled to take regular exercise under a competent instructor...