Word: contempt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most offensive part of his article is his denunciation of what he calls "Harvard contempt," "Cambridge Miss-Nancyism." None of his examples prove anything to his purpose. Of the worthlessness of student opinion as to the character and abilities of a fellow-student we are all aware. Harvard College has placed on its governing board two of the gentlemen mentioned, and has bestowed upon them other marks of honor. Of the influence Mr. Emerson and Mr. Adams have on the thought and opinion of Harvard students it is unnecessary to speak. The charge that Mr. Sumner was impolitely treated...
...extreme sourness - not to say impertinence - with which this agrarian inveighs against Harvard contempt and Cambridge conservatism makes one almost irresistibly infer that he has been - to say nothing of his deserts - a sufferer from both the one and the other...
...working man does not, after all, get the best of Harvard culture, and whether the "grind," discountenancing, of course, a too persistent and unhealthy devotion to study, is not, on the whole, more worthy of admiration and respect than the "swell." I suspect that much of our affected contempt for a "dig" is a result of indolence. It is very convenient for a lazy man to express the opinion that "grinds" and "grinding" are a bore, but such an opinion, he may be sure, won't in the end be a paying one. A summer vacation, when...
...into its head that he was a toady, and cut him altogether; while the other half sponged on him, as a matter of course; and the poor little man went through college spending half as much again as anybody else, and getting nothing in return for it but the contempt of everybody that saw him. So don't treat, and don't be treated. It don't pay to pay, for you will be called a toady; it don't pay to be paid for, for you will be called a sponge...
...paper which enjoys so high a reputation for intellectual and philosophical eminence as does the Advocate will, in all probability, regard with silent contempt any suggestions made to it by so insignificant a person as a contributor to the Crimson. But I cannot refrain from closing my letter with the remark that a paper that desires to have any influence upon public opinion ought to endeavor to maintain some reputation for accuracy; and that if such a paper feels called upon to find fault with a body of men who are at least the social and intellectual equals...