Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduate movement which it so caustically refers to as "patronizing," and "kind," may not have the force and value which have been claimed for it, but it at least deserves commendation more than sneers. The editorial on the founding of Clark university is written in the same spirit of contempt. A candid statement of the objections to a new university, which are undoubtedly many and strong, would have much more force, and would not be as liable to be misunderstood...
...higher thinkers to high livers is continually rising, as the library and office statistics show. The great populace at the University is apt to slur over moral laxity in a man provided he is affable and kindly, i.e., a 'good fellow.' Yet it is undeniable that the feeling of contempt, for vice and extravagance, gathers strength among all as the four years pass. The influence of the sporting men, of men of fashion, and of the heavy subscribers to athletic games (i. e., of the fast set), which is overwhelming in the freshman year, is almost entirely supersided...
...admirable, but its ideas of civilization are different from ours, and if more than amusement or manual training is attempted, the priest is sure to interfere. In the next place, work among the lowest class is of little benefit without a lifelong experience. Amiable feelings are held in contempt by these people, and unless there is some real work to be done, some common ground for both, friendly sentiments are useless. It is not worth while to attempt simple amusement, for the amount of sin or drunkenness is not decreased by it. Relations however, with the more intelligent and prosperous...
...superiority of those students who. putting aside the petty spirit which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss matters of great importance for the welfare of the University, it will be certain to obtain a larger influence in directing college sentiment than it has had in the past...
When our attention was called to this attack in the Wesleyan Argus, we treated it with the contempt it deserved by passing it by unnoticed, remembering the source from which it came. In a recent number of the Princetoniun, however, the editors have seen fit to publish the extracts from the editorials in question. If, as it seems, those statements of the Argus are to go the rounds of the college press, we have, in justice to the Harvard team, to notice them far enough to deny them. What movive actuated the editors of the Princetonian to reprint the statements...