Word: dishonor
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...yard to the students. To refuse this request of the Alumni, the Faculty would act in direct contravention to their established policy of allowing the undergraduates to govern themselves. If the request is granted, the men will feel bound in honor to do nothing which would tend to dishonor our University. Games with professionals would teach the nine to accept defeat with resignation. They would learn to control their feelings; and thus a better condition of affairs would exist when we meet with defeat upon the college ball field...
...other, might seem an axiom whose self-evidence could be questioned only in a fit of insane infatuation. Yet for ages the truth was lost sight of, and indeed was supplanted by the antagonistic error, namely, that if we would cultivate and develop the soul, we must oppress and dishonor the tabernacle in which it dwells. To consider the dilapidation of the casket as indispensable to the increase of the brilliancy of the gem, is an unnatural paradox, to say the least. As a consequence of this strange logic the body was disparaged, vilified, cursed, macerated and mutilated...
...view of the general sentiment at Cornell that the turbulence between the two lower classes has been excessive, the sophomores have just held a meeting in which it was resolved that "We desparage and discourage a continuance of turbulence and that we refrain from any action which would reflect dishonor upon the University." A motion was also carried that "The freshmen whose pants had been decorated with a sophomore poster should be supplied with a new pair...
...Yale. Rather than have such catastrophe occur the eleven had better be suppressed at once. The 'varsity team, on its return to the inter-collegiate foot-ball arena, has made an round which we can all view with pride and satisfaction, but the freshman have done nothing but bring dishonor upon their class and their college...
...poor taste, but is productive of positive evil. Every student who wishes to crib feels justified in outwitting a proctor. The very presence of a spy serves as an incentive to underhanded tricks. When a student is placed on his honor, and and when betrayal of that trust, means dishonor and disrepute among his fellows, he is under stronger guard than when a proctor is stationed over him. A student who would crib under such circumstances, deserves social ostracism by students, and public expulsion by the faculty. If a strong sentiment could be established in college supporting an opinion such...