Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...opinions as Mr. Peck has presented. Our best answer is, "Come and see!" For our admiration for the systems which now prevail in our university and for the life and ideals which are the outcome of such elevating systems, are so strong that we are powerless to express our contempt for the mistaken ideas of Mr. Peck. Of the two suppositions in regard to Prof. Peck which we must make in order to explain his article, - either ignorance of his subject or lack of perception of moral worth, - we are by charity forced to adopt the former...
...less upon rigid rules and more upon undergraduate good feeling and good sense in all matters pertaining to the good character of the undergraduates and that of the university. Let Harvard men, one and all, prove their worthiness of this confidence by combining to put the law of social contempt and condemnation upon a practice, which has more than once been eagerly caught up by those jealous of the increasing reputation of Harvard to vent their spleen against the university. All would doubtless be indignant were the question made that there is a lower standard of manly honor and truth...
...remedy for cribbing that offenders be dealt with by a jury of undergraduates. It seems to me he does not go deep enough. If public opinion were not torpid on the subject, most of the cheating would stop at once; - few men would be willing to face the sure contempt of their friends even for forty per cent. A remark I heard lately, made by an upperclassman, is rather a striking illustration of how a good part of the college world looks at these things. He was speaking of the proctors; and he said if they were done away with...
...nine-tenths of us a compulsory service is utterly distasteful and wrong. We know better than Dr. Hale what effect this service is having on the college. We know better than he that seniors go away from Harvard without religious belief, and with only a bitter hate and contempt in their hearts for the methods employed here to make them "moral." We know better than he what a spiritual waste and loss our present system carries with it. The taste of Dead Sea apples is very fresh in our mouths...
There is a great tendency among the students here at Harvard, to look with a certain amount of derision and contempt upon the man who is neither going to take up one of the regular professions, nor enter business, but intends to pursue a specialty which affords absolutely no chance for material gain. The cry of "dillettanteism" immediately arises. It cannot be denied that "dillettanteism" is becoming a very popular euphemism for doing absolutely nothing in life. But it is a simple matter to point out that a man who is well up in literary work can readily bring honor...