Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...overlook scholarship as one of the great activities. Let not hard work discourage, for everything calls for hard work. The belief that scholarship necessitates a hermit's life is a delusion and absolutely discredited. To declare, as some do that study is uninspiring is to hold in contempt the greatest things that men have ever said or thought or done...
...Lawrence Strike and the Foreigner," given last evening explained how the foreigner comes to America from the ignorance and degrading poverty of his own country, with the undeveloped mind of a child and almost in the condition of a barbarian. Deep hatred for all other races, and utter contempt for government has been instilled into him, while America has been painted as a Utopia of absolute equality. Instead of that he finds his condition, though better than at home, far below that of those about him, and cannot understand it in a land of freedom...
...choking dust of Harvard street, Brighton, on the way to Soldiers Field is not a nice price to pay for access to a game, in spite of the fact that we have grown to accept dust as the welcome alternative for rain and mud. That familiarity has dulled contempt, is no reason why climate-harassed throats should be further insulted by the steady cloud of dust and filth that rises from the pavement of that street, and from the now unmentionable bridge. The Athletic Association certainly owes the civic powers a considerable debt for police protection and supervision...
...doubt this impression is strengthened by the acting, here the least successful of any of the evening. The characters speak words that attest to their horror, but their aspect conveys no sense of feeling whatever. Mr. Lyding was in manner and appearance admirable as the father; but his contempt for lines was almost epic. He should play in "Sumurun...
...policy of at once dropping from the squad men who are on probation and neglecting them until their standing is restored, should be pursued in every sport with the utmost vigor. And behind that policy the undergraduates should stand, regarding men on probation, and especially athletes, with the same contempt as they would regard a man who breaks training...