Word: disesteem
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...successful scholastically, most of them do even better socially with an almost four to one ratio of boys to girls. While twenty or thirty years ago, the co-eds were held in considerable disesteem and Cornell men in a griping mood still occasionally exalt the merits of "imports" over the home-grown variety, the last real student resistance to co-education seems to have died out with...
...additions; first, such a general education as educated men find necessary for intelligent intercourse with one another; and second, inculcations of a set of virtues, admirable always, out indispensable in a soldier. Men may be inexact or even untruthful in ordinary matters and suffer as a consequence only the disesteem of their associates or the inconveniences of unfavorable litigation, but the inexact or untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his fellow men and with the honor of his government, and it is therefore no matter of pride but rather of stein military necessity that makes West Point require...
...time his second great war is upon him, Blimp is the grand old lobster of the cartoon, angry, hurt and bewildered to find his age and his military experience in disesteem. The crowning blow comes when sharp young men of the new Army jump the gun in training maneuvers and capture him, boiling red and boiling mad, in a Turkish bath, hours before the sharo battle was supposed to begin. Reluctant and heartsick, he begins at last to understand the one thing the movie tries to teach Blimp, or to show him inadequate in: the idea that the code that...
...part of the disesteem which for years dull minds visited upon him was the result of his novel writing, which was not first rate. Though his mind was essentially creative, it worked less freely through his imagination and sympathy than through his critical faculty. Whereas his novels were mainly empty shells of form, his volume on English Composition was full of meat, probably the most philosophic and stimulating work on this much be-written subject. His critical biography of Shakespeare was by turns brilliantly original and deficient in imaginative feeling. In his later years his methods sobered somewhat, his interests...
...such inseparable companions of the students of the two continents. Says this iconoclastic writer: "Professor Good win's letter in the Nation of January 29, on a misrepresentation of Plato's 'Republic' is of value, not only in showing up the immediate mistake, but in adding weight to the disesteem deserved in general by the translations in Bohn's library. So many persons unable to read the originals read these translations believing them to be faithful, at least to the author's meaning, that it is much to be desired that proof after proof should be given that this...