Word: shame
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...played the trick than to see students and instructors gravely discussing the moral aspects of an affair, which, when the worst has been granted, is nothing but a "Freshman trick." When a newspaper in all solemnity declares that "the cheek of every true Harvard man should blush for shame" for such an occurrence, and that such conduct threatens the very existence of the lecture system of instruction, the affair becomes more comic than its perpetrators could possibly have hoped. When we are grave they call us stiff-necked and blase; when we come down to a perfectly harmless piece...
...have been fixed up at considerable expense, the small number of men who have so far come out to try for the team is discouraging. Harvard has always been well represented in the triangular intercollegiate shoots. Last year the team won the intercollegiate cup, and it would be a shame to allow it to go away without an earnest effort to keep it here another year. It is the duty of all men who have shot on the team to come out and try again. The new men always do better work when they are stirred by their example...
...seemed to wake up, and, under the leadership of some loyal graduates, did a little really good cheering. The cheering gave the nearly-discouraged players new life, but it came too late. There probably would have been no cheering at all if a few graduates had not for very shame at the apathy of the Harvard men offered to lead...
...members of the University who wish to hear Dr. Fiske's second lecture this evening of the necessity of being on hand early. On Tuesday there were a large number of students standing in the aisles before the time announced for the lecture to begin. It is a shame that this should be so, but if the University does not see fit to limit the attendance of outsiders, there is nothing for students to do but to anticipate the inhabitants of Cambridge at the doors...
...life, but the denial of self. The things of life are made sacred by being consecrated to the common good. By sacrifice the life is saved, and made morally whole. Human progress has tracked its every step in the blood of those who have been outlawed and put to shame in the world's behalf...