Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brought to a state of perfection which Yale and Princeton must follow, or be worse distanced than now. Religion is no longer forced upon the students, who are left to form their religious convictions with mature thought, and not to imbibe early in life a feeling of hostility and contempt for all religion. Perhaps it is to be deplored that Harvard's proximity to Boston tends to inculcate in young minds the dilletate spirit which pervades the Athens of America. Take it all in all, though, President Eliot has accomplished a great deal even if he has not been...
...cannot but ask for an explanation. Doubtless a member of the upper classes would say: - "They are freshmen and so know no better. But as a freshman I dismiss this answer with the contempt it deserves. For my own part, I can devise but one explanation. Probably the men who converse are so thoroughly familiar with the principles of English composition and are so skilled in the practice of it that little, if anything can be added to the knowledge and skill they already possess. Being thus raised so far above us who have not attained this intellectual height...
...college, the editors of the Herald are perhaps alone responsible, and the article may have been written under a misapprehension of the facts, but if the author is at present in college, (and there is internal evidence that this so,) then he should be discovered, and branded with the contempt that he deserves. Who is this person that pretends to know the needs and means of the first twenty-five scholars in the present senior class and can pick out eight of these men as being able to get along well without aid from the college funds? Let us trust...
...collegiate contest participate in the early morning festivities subsequent to the ball in question cannot be passed over in silence. The performances of the men who are trying for positions on the freshman eleven when regarded as a class - there are notable exceptions - have been such as to merit contempt of every Harvard man, but this last escapade is by far the most disgusting of all. On Saturday, it is expected to play the game with Yale. Rather than have such catastrophe occur the eleven had better be suppressed at once. The 'varsity team, on its return to the inter...
...their purposes as young men were in his day, when a careful reading of the leading article of the Monthly betrays a repetition of the sentiment. Dr. Everett, in English not particularly elegant, pictures student life at Harvard thirty years ago, and manages to intersperse a fair degree of contempt for certain methods which at present obtain among the students. But a class of students whose reading was Dickens, although two or more years younger than the corresponding class of to-day, were of course, "above the reproach of being magnificent animals," for those were halcyon days, when "boys began...