Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...doubt. For those who are new to Cambridge ways, we may say that the method pursued by Mr. Hayes is removed, as for as possible, from the spread-eagle, oratorical fashion which is in vogue in so many institutions, and which has brought the study of elocution into much contempt. Mr. Hayes lays stress on enunciation and pronunciation and his aim is to make men speak distinctly and as perfectly as possible. Those who wish to pursue this work will meet today in Holden Chapel from...
...nine's reception by the crowd at Princeton is inexplicable. That Princeton, Harvard's old ally, should descend to the tactics which are held in such general contempt, is beyond our power of explanation." - Crimson...
...nine's reception by the crowd at Princeton is inexplicable. That Princeton, Harvard's old ally, should descend to the tactics which are held in such general contempt is beyond our power of explanation. On Saturday the Harvard spectators will show the Princeton men how visitors should be treated on strange grounds...
...which certain undergraduates attempted to win the game by yelling. Yesterday we had occasion to call attention to the evil which was creeping into the class games. Now, in an intercollegiate contest, Harvard has been reduced to the level which has always been the object of scorn and contempt heretofore, and deserves to remain so. It is much to be regretted that, besides those who supported the nine, there were men on the team itself, whose conduct eminently ill-fitted the occasion. The fresh man nine has one thing to learn before it undertakes to represent Harvard again...
...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...