Possible Clues:

• College official keeps me humble
• Lower in standing or reputation
• Debase
• One might lower this with our behaviour
• Would it be beneath my dignity to have a cleric around me?
• Lower in dignity or respect
• Would it lower me to have a 9 across around?
• Lower in reputation, humiliate
• Would it be beneath him to get him around me from the cathedral?
• Would it lower the editor to turn as stingy as this?