Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Such a club as proposed will not interfere with the present existing societies nor will they interfere with it. The club will never suffer for lack of support by the best men in the University, and such as would disdain to frequent it are of a class discreditable to any society and unworthy of recognition by their fellow students...
...single sentence the writer calls us "unpolitical Harvard men," characterizes as "foolish performances inside the College yard" the enthusiastic political meetings of yound men just entering into the highest privilege of citizenship, and says that we have "no issues at all" ! This is so marked by that affected disdain of seriousness of purpose with which the young amateur who dabbles in the decadent literature of our day flatters himself that he is intellectually superior, that I can hardly bring myself to seriously consider it. Does the writer stamp as "foolish" the meetings which the men have carried through to give...
...three of the elements of the painting of this period combined. He was a pupil of Savonarola, and was a charming painter if not a great one. The leader of the new awakening in art in Florence was Mazatio, a man whom Raphael and Michael Angelo did not disdain to follow. Many men of other schools also were drawn to Florence who in time adopted the Florentine School. At this period there were really in Italy, but two great schools, the Florentine and the Venetian. All the others were small branches from these...