Word: affront
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During the summer, an attempt was made by Yale graduates to see whether Harvard still held to her first position; but the only definite proposition advanced was the "correspondence" between Captains Thorne and Brewer, which, not to mention its artificial character, was an affront to Harvard in that it was but a disguised repetition of Captain Thorne's letter, and implied a total lack of seriousness in Harvard's reply...
...Resolved, That we, the students of Yale University, hereby publicly denounce this affront to the name and dignity of Professor Silliman; and be it further...
...reply to the Murchison letter is an affront to the people of the United States. (a) It implies insincerity on the part of the administration, by saying that the party in power knows it would lose popularity in power knows it would lose popularity if it openly favored the mother country.- Murchison correspondence in Public Opinion; (b) It passes strictures on the government by saying, "allowance must be made for the political situation.- Ibid; (c) It impugns the motives of the senate in the rejection of the treaty, by saying that the Canadian question was reopened by the republican majority...
...frequent and usually unwarranted rudeness of the management. The independent spirit of the officials is possibly pardonable, but the manner of its display is inexpressibly galling. Any complaint, far from being met in a proper spirit, seems to be regarded by the superintendent in the light of a personal affront, and the complainant is subjected too often to abuse...
...aimed at in the resolution-to abstain from the slightest mention of the societies and their merits and doings in the presence of outsiders. Even the humming of one of the society songs by a non-society man will invariably cause them to leave the room where the supposed affront occurs. It was expected that the moment the matter was brought up at this meeting the "Bones" and "Key" men would rise from their seats and leave the hall. This, however, was not the case. The society men remained, and, although taking little or no part in the discussion, succeeded...