Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been disposed of in the preparatory schools, misses, it seems to me, the whole meaning and purpose of the course. Undoubtedly there are, and long have been, section leaders in the course itself who have thus misconstrued its significance, and so have led their students to regard it with contempt. That would account for some of the derogatory opinion that has been expressed to me. But even under ineffective teaching, a student can derive great benefit from the course if he can visualize its big purpose and significance...
...CRIMSON has seemed unnecessarily critical. Even if the movement is superficial, it is valuable in itself and as an index of something deeper. But at present we know little about it. Heywood Broun commends it, and Harvard college immediately becomes occipital. Our attitude seems to indicate either fear or contempt of the new tendency. It certainly indicates insularity and self-satisfaction...
...forced either out of existence entirely or to scrap its early ideals and life-long traditions." And we agree entirely, although to do so may seem inconsistent with the impression of our attitude that our correspondent has. The latter speaks of the "new tendency" and our apparent fear or contempt of it. "We are" says Cyril, "afraid of nothing; and as for contempt, that is a snobbish feeling, and snobbery arises out of fear that someone will discover one's inferiority. Ergo, we admit no contempt...
...stimulant at best. The theatre, if it is to recover, must do so through itself, rather than through any extrinsic influences. And, after all, New York may grow disgusted with its iniquities. The Restoration period went through something of the same career, we believe. Familiarity is said to breed contempt...
...learn with pleasure how quickly the Freshmen have become saturated with the spirit of things as they are. Although we gave up the idea of a complete vote in the upperclasses some time ago, we suspected that one term would not suffice to instill in the Freshmen a hearty contempt for polls and elections. But apparently our fears were groundless; since the class of 1925, faithfully following the example of its elders, has cast 449 ballots out of the 522 required for the justly famous sixty per cent...