Word: deed
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...criminality, of any deed really depends on the malignity or ill-will that marked the doing...
...this deed we all know there was no ill-will whatever-none toward Harvard, none toward Yale. And yet a grave injury was done to the property, to the self-respect of Harvard men, and to the good name of the college. The spreading the report of this irreverent folly all over our land gives a false impression as to Harvard College life, and does a serious injury and wrong. What then ought the offenders now to do? Should they work in concealment, to be ferreted out like rats, feeling now a guilt they never meant to assume? Would...
Resolved, That we express the unanimous sentiment of the undergraduates in saying, that we view the wanton defacing of Harvard's walls and monuments with the most hearty indignation; that we resent the imputation that a deed so barbarous and un-Harvardlike could have been done by our sanction or with our knowledge; but that we believe it to be the sanction of one or two men at most...