Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...absolutely healthful, and, barring Fresh Pond water, so is Cambridge. For this we can not be too thankful. It has taken our university centuries to grow to what it is, and it looks forward to a greater and even greater prosperity ; yet the slightest taint-even the suspicion of an unhealthful location-could undo the slow work of centuries, and Harvard's prospect of soon becoming the university of America would be ruined...
...college. If an instance of this kind had occurred when college papers first began to be published, its cause would have been found in the fact that their influence was misapprehended and feared. But the college press have too long exerted a beneficial effect to suffer the suspicion of doubt as to their utility. Their generally just treatment of questions of college interest vindicates their right to a free expression of opinion, if they have any right to exist at all. That this is now a generally accepted belief is indicated by the almost unheard-of interference of college faculties...
...course such an examination is necessary and will give us much information as to the affair. But the investigation, to be entirely satisfactory, should be conducted by persons who are entirely disinterested, as any investigation by persons connected with the college will be more or less liable to the suspicion of prejudice. The boat house was under the management of the college and of course the college will be interested in making a report as favorable to its own management as possible. With the best of intentions, the college cannot avoid this tendency. Therefore, to make the investigation final...
...success of our Cooperative society has surpassed the expectations of its founders. When it first started it was looked upon with suspicion by a number who feared that it would never succeed in gaining a foothold in the university, largely on account of the much-talk-of "Harvard indifference." But in spite of the many difficulties attending its foundation it has attained a remarkable degree of success and has become at last firmly established as one of the permanent institutions of the college. The membership is larger than ever before and numbers almost half of the university. It does...
...having his pictures made, has emulated the example of 82's most striking case of attentuatedness. When this physically thin individual sat for negatives, he stuffed his cheeks with cotton, in order to give himself a fictitious appearance of a homo vivus and to remove the suspicion that his photograph was the picture of a skeleton clad in senior clothes...