Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university, we blush with indignation at his imprudent and unscrupulous liberty; if it be the work of a student, which we sincerely trust it is not, we blush with shame to think that one of our number can be guilty of an act so small, so utterly beneath contempt, and, worse than all, so morally wrong. The writer of the signature may have thought that he was perpetrating a huge joke in thus attempting to deceive whoever might look over the register; but a short residence among us would soon teach him that such an act is not funny...
...improving the teams and drawing out the best men at hand to belong to them. It will offer an opportunity for captains to talk to their men at any length without fear of interruption, and at the same time will create a general feeling of equality and social friendship beneath the different athletic organizations...
President Gates, of Rutgers has refused permission to the students to give a minstrel entertainment for the benefit of the Athletic Association. Prof. Gates thinks it beneath the dignity of students to blacken their faces and appear on the stage...
...seal of the Institute bears the motto, "Haec Studia Adolescentiam Alunt." Within the inscription there is an open scroll lying upon a book. In the background, an inkstand. Beneath the whole is the date of its foundation...
...year 1791, a student brought a pig into his room in Hollis. In those days the window-seats were merely long boxes with lids, used to store articles in. Said student having an antipathy to the proctor who roomed beneath, was accustomed to squeeze piggy's ears and make him squeal whenever said proctor was engaged in the study of the classics. The result would be a rush by the proctor for the student's rooms, where the student was to be found studying (?), peacefully seated on his window-seat. Piggy, in the mean time had been deposited beneath...