Word: abjectly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been entered, showing most unmistakably that the rivalry of the season had been a most generous one. A few years of contest between such teams and in such a spirit will so thoroughly convince every one of the value of the sport that nothing short of the most abject folly on the part of the younger players who take up the game can prevent its future being the brightest, because the most free from any professional or hippodroming element, of any of our pastimes...
Apparently this was not sufficiently abject to please the Lampoon, for its issue of to-day devotes a great deal of space and ingenuity in abusing us, in spite of our apology; but we do not think that public opinion will pronounce their reply either called for or in good taste-perhaps they themselves will not in the course of a month or two. It is human...
...should be given by the faculty to the administration of the elective system, and that a more careful supervision should be exercised .... over the choice of studies made by students." This, we think, will meet the hearty endorsement of nearly all classes of men, except the smallest and more abject, namely, the seekers after "snap" courses. This regulation, with the one recently announced concerning special students will do away with the objectionable features of our elective system. The professional drone in college is becoming passe, and a man, if he is anybody, must lay claim to some intellectual tastes...
Quarrels among gentlemen are certainly unfortunate, but unless the correspondent can show how they can be avoided, except by abject submission to the terms of our antagonist, I do not see what is to be done. The writer relieves our minds by informing us "that the majority of graduates, and he believes, undergraduates, desire that the race shall be rowed squarely and fairly." I hope that it is not the Boat Club or the graduate committee that he suspects of any desire to row it in any other way. He wishes "that the arrangements should be settled in private...
...that, which anywhere else would call for investigation by the citizens' association, at least. But what do these Harvard men do? Do they hold a mass-meeting, and have speeches and resolutions and reports, et cetera? No, indeed! On the contrary they tamely submit; they leave Memorial in abject fear, and deliver over its fair precincts into the hands of the tyrants? This is the reward of our efforts. After all my letters to the papers calling for justice and reform in such eloquent and powerful language, after all your own laborious reports and editorials and statistics, we see only...