Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Such exhibitions of disorderly conduct as the students in Economics I have lately been guilty of ought to be beneath the dignity of Harvard men. Those few who are inciting these disturbances are spoiling one of the most useful courses in College for all who have a real interest in the lectures. They are creating bad precedents not only for this one course, but for all others to which their lawless spirit may be communicated. Men are sent to college to learn, not to horse their instructors...
From the spectator's point of view, though the cheering at the game was admirably enthusiastic and truly spontaneous, its organization was far from perfect. Further, the unsportlike jeers and cat-calls on the occasion of our opponent's misplays were beneath contempt; when we talk about the attempts of men of other colleges to rattle pitchers, we should remember that, while we do not professedly organize demonstrations for the purpose, we tolerate many individual offenders...
...vague and completely bowlderized reminiscence of an episode in the fifteenth book of the Iliad. One's screams, however, are not long prolonged. Of ten august and ancient inspirations, and no happier in itself, is Mr. Storer's "A Chemical Chimaera." It is a weakling hatched beneath the wing of Mr. H. G. Wells. Mr. Roelker's essay on "College Politics" is too rambling in style and thought to be as effective as it might. But his plea for more intelligent interest in politics is one that we might heed with advantage. The anonymous essay "Concerning Those Who Appreciate...
...have not been taught to believe in the infinite mercy of Heaven, which has made us all, and will take care we do not go far astray, at least believe that you are not yet sufficiently important to be taken too seriously by the powers above us or beneath us. In other words, take anything and everything seriously except yourselves...
...fairies, sirens, and heroes, and the Breton genius has stamped them with a mystery all its own. To believe, one has but to read the works of Luzel. Its national legends are unparalleled, as for instance the tale of the lost city of Iv, whose bells are always ringing beneath...