Word: shame
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...executive committee the full power of closing the gallery to all at any time it should see fit. There has been enough of this rowdiness. Let the new members of the College take heed before the authorities are forced to close the hall from the public in shame lest outsiders conclude that the diners are hoodlums instead of gentlemen...
...October, Mr. H. H. Clayton, of the Blue Hill Observatory, and Mr. Lincoln Steffens, author of "The Shame of the Cities"; in November, Mr. J. S. Wise, one of the most prominent lawyers of New York City, Mr. Beekman Winthrop, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr. T. M. Osborne, of the Committee on Public Utility in New York; in December, Mr. E. B. Baldwin, the Arctic explorer, and Mr. A. H. Woods, of the New York Police Department; in January, Dr. Charles A. Eastman, the only North American Indian on the lecture platform; in March, Hon. Samuel W. McCall...
...shame to let such an excellent custom disappear, especially one in which there is so much to be gained and enjoyed by Harvard men. After all is said and done, there are times when most of us yearn just a little for a touch of that more compactly organized life of the small college--not by any means all of it--but the freer and a little more universal fellowship of those communities which have a different constitution from ours. And the Yard concerts would help to foster this...
...Shame of the Colleges," by Irwin...
...individual attachments between books and readers are characteristically close, and where every person is under suspicion of being a thief until he is beyond the reach of temptation; but when members of the University are honored by the hirelings of the University with a grade of courtesy which would shame a country grocer's bumpkin, and with a gentlemanliness of demeanor which indicates an apprenticeship serving rations in a penitentiary, the intruding student is apt to wish that his taste for the finer courtesies had been better adapted to this new environment in the Reading Room at Gore Hall...