Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feel no shame or compunction if at the end of many years we thrust our youth, in all their unwarned ignorance, through the open gate of life-while, I say, such a system as this continues and flourishes, which most practical men have long scorned with an immeasurable contempt, do not let us consider that we have advanced a single step in reforming education, to reform which, in the words of Leibnitz, is to reform society and to reform mankind...
...Harvard or Yale course. But this I will say, that in my time I have met many Harvard men and found but one a sincere Christian. With the rest of them the pursuit of a secular knowledge seemed to have led to skepticism and a thinly disguised contempt for all things sacred. [T. B. Connery, N. Y. Times...
Milligan has a cold contempt for those skeptics "who attack first principles and confound their readers or hearers with paroxysms...
...there are a few misguided individuals who turn a deaf ear to these pleasing distractions and take no relaxation from their grind. Such students cannot claim our sympathy - a man so devoted to work as not to appreciate such disinterested generosity is a poor, senseless being who deserves the contempt of all good people...
...possesses a spark of college feeling, would be offended by a simple request to subscribe to the university crew. We can assure the perpetrator of the deed that if his name - which he had the cowardice to conceal - shall ever be made known, he will meet with merited contempt from all his fellow-students...