Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Professional base-ball players, professional rowers and professional athletes generally far surpass collegians in their specialties. Yet there are people who would rather see contests between collegians than professionals. The reason is that no taint of jockeying attaches to what the college boys do. There is every motive for extreme effort, and public opinion would discountenance every victory by a trick. This trait of disinterested honesty gives a special interest to expressions of political opinion by college men. Moreover, as they are alert in forming opinions, an idea of what the progresive intelligence of the country thinks on current topics...
...obtaining a title seems very objectionable; to resort to the same means to make a race, which could be obtained, if at all, by the usual methods known to collegians, seems the worst possible taste. While every effort is being made at present to illuminate the objectionable professional taint from college athletics, for Pennsylvania to make a move in the opposite direction is a blot on her reputation which she should hasten to wipe out by withdrawing her manifesto...
...years can be corrected without such sweeping changes as the faculty proposes. A middle course is possible to this extent, that we can retrace our steps and place college athletics once again in the position which they held ten or fifteen years ago when hardly a hint of professional taint or of undue excess was ever made. Indeed the gap between the two methods of reform is not so very wide. Not-withstanding these consideration however, we believe the college stands ready to accept the experiment of the faculty and test its new system with good grace and even with...
...report, is not a new one, and it would be useless to open anew a discussion as to its justice. No one desires to see a higher tone in college athletics more than we, nor would any be more pleased to see some sensible change by which any taint of professionalism which may still linger in them could be removed...
...epidemic. The college now is 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...