Word: bombastics
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...propriety and decency, and so long as she occupies her present position, a race with her is, to Harvard, an impossibility. For the disgraceful remarks of one of her papers, of course we cannot hold her accountable; and, moreover, the comments of the Record have already shown that this bombast and vituperation on the part of the Courant did not, by any means, express the sentiment of the College. But the deliberate charges made by their captain in a speech at a regular meeting of the Yale Boat-Club are the utterances of a responsible and representative person...
...hatreds, its keen debates, its frank discussions of character, and of deep political and religious questions, - all are safeguards against sloth, vulgarity, and depravity. Its society, and not less its solitudes, are full of teaching. Shams, conceit, and fictitious distinctions get no mercy. There is nothing but ridicule for bombast and sentimentality. Repression of genuine sentiment and emotion is, indeed, in this College, carried too far. Reserve is more respectable than any undiscerning communicativeness. But neither Yankee shamefacedness nor English stolidity is admirable. This point especially touches you, young men, who are still undergraduates. When you feel a true admiration...
...heartily as we have done, and perhaps the next generation of Englishmen may meet us on the water as equals. At present it is deemed but idle for even a second-rate crew to measure oars with the best we can bring out. There is a good deal of bombast in this, and reminds one of a bully who boasts when thinking himself safe from fight. We have never rowed but once with an English university, and at that time, although beaten, the result was far from a disgrace. We were under every disadvantage, caused by change of climate...