Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Beneath the ancient church yard slabs...
Could the insulting, one-sided remarks of the Harvard HERALD concerning our foot-ball team be taken as representative in any degree of the sentiments of the college, they might deserve consideration; but, as it is, they are beneath notice. The expressions of the Boston papers, and of individual Harvard students of high standing, show what the true ideas at that institution are, and we have no ground for complaint. - [Yale News.] Will the News name one Harvard student of "high standing" who has put himself on record as approving Yale's play and disapproving Harvard's universal condemnation...
...great dining hall of the university. Here assemble, three times a day, hundreds of young men to be fed with bread and meat, and nowhere could this noble conception have a deeper, a better influence than in this place, where it glows a perfect feast of colors and harmony. Beneath the window hangs a portrait of Captain Robert Shaw, and all about the hall stand busts, many of which represent men whose names are connected with that crimson page of our history of which John Lafarge's window is a passionate reflection. A large band of negro servitors keep...
...affairs, the "politician," and the man who is not biased in his opinions by the unfortunate disadvantage of a college education. A fallacy truly illustrative of the popular prejudice against the interference of men of letters and education in public affairs! It is manifestly an opinion beneath argument, but may be cited as an example of the opposition that all college men must meet in entering upon the field of popular politics. May the officers and graduates of Harvard College never abdicate their active interest in politics in deference to the plaintive and puerile complaints of such as the correspondent...
...such an agreement be made for one or two years in almost any college, and the practice of hazing is practically abolished." The only real reform will come, we think, when as at Harvard the students have outgrown the silly practice and come to discountenance it as childish and beneath their dignity...