Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...furnishing of rooms, there is also a certain element of worry and uncertainty in settling what lectures are to be attended, and whether or no the use of "a coach" is advisable. In the arrangement of these matters, let us look with the eye of pity and contempt upon the work which falls upon the Tutors, and if they continually forget our names when we call upon them, and very evidently regard our presence as a necessary but still most annoying infliction, let us remember that they, too, are but human, and that it is to such as they that...
...firm stand in favor of the present system, and invokes the public to judge whether "when the good name of the university is draggled in the mire by her own sons, these reformers should be held to prove their damaging charges, or else, be silenced with the deserved contempt which awaits men who have not hesitated intentionally or unintentionally to compromise the innocent." These somewhat strong expressions have been evoked by the increasing frequency with which the merits of a dark and mysterious collection of clubs such as Yale possesses, have been challenged...
...would use a little good sense, or better, a little common fairness when dealing with Harvard, we should be most happy to refer to it. But so long as it descends to such impertinence as its past issue exhibits, its remarks can only be treated with the contempt they deserve...
...took occasion to say recently, the pity of the students for the ignorance of the professors in regard to athletics, was altogether too strongly tinctured with contempt. The counsel of a dyspeptic professor on the conduct of undergraduate sports is calculated to excite the derision and despite of the sporting undergraduate. The professor is the disinterested observer of Lucretius, who, from the shore, inspects the great labor of another in the vaist of the boat, or who cushions the top rail of a fence, and from that tranquil eminence looks out from under an umbrella, and through spectacles probably green...
...They evidently intend to ridicule the ministry of the Methodist Church and show their contempt for it because there were ministers on board the train. One of them pointed to the rear of the car and said, 'there is the bar.' If these young men had been drunk, we would have supposed that they were on a drunken carousal and when they got sober they would be ashamed of their conduct, but as they appeared to be sober we supposed that it was a premeditated attempt to ridicule the ministers on board or their church...