Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...whole story gives rise to suspicion of that craft in intercollegiate matters in which I admit Harvard is far behind some of her contemporaries, and savors too much of the worse features of American polities...
...came to Harvard with the suspicion that it was a poor place for a religious man to come to. My Orthodox friends, both in the East and in the West, warned me of its moral atmosphere. But, after I had spent a half year at Harvard, during which time I made its moral and religious tone a study, I concluded that the fears of my friends were unfounded, and, furthermore, that their ideas had been distorted by such articles as the one written by Quest for the North American Review. Unwilling, however, to rest the matter on my own experience...
...suppose that "H. H. D." had his wish and that all students, simply as such, were treated as above suspicion and examined without proctors. Suppose then that some of them, being tempted by Satan, were to cheat, and to be seen cheating. What I should like "H. H. D." to answer is this: What likelihood would there be, in the present state of college opinion, of such students being sent to Coventry, dropped from the various associations with which they might be connected, and made to feel generally they had disgraced themselves in the public eye? It is all very...
...American Minister, 'is one of une of unequalled loveliness, even in this land of beauty.' Happily, the open ground on all sides promises to leave it to us forever. Moreover, the site is not only high, but dry, and, being what is practically virgin soil, is free from any suspicion of the malaria that infects the older and lower parts of the town. Yet it has an abundant supply of water, for the Aqeduct of Hydrian flows past the door. All the sanitary conditions seem to be of the best...
...that such a system in college is neither desirable nor possible. The ends for which colleges are established, namely, the training of the mind and character would be defeated by the consciousness to the students that the normal attitude of a faculty towards them was one of suspicion and distrust...