Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...punishing the offenders. We are led to refer to the subject again because of a recent and daring case of theft. Last week a student, upon going to dinner at Memorial, hung his overcoat upon one of the hooks at the side of the hall. Imagine his supreme disgust, when looking for his coat after dinner, to find that it had been stolen, almost under his very eyes. Now why should we be continually troubled by annoyances of this nature? There is no doubt but that the whole system of thievery could be promptly broken up if the authorities would...
...celebrations. The proctors on one side and the fellows on the other, spend hour after hour in trying to outwit each other. Numbers in the end always prevail, and festivities commence at about 11 or 12 o'clock. The noise and disturbance continue till three o'clock, to the disgust and sleep-lessness of the townsmen...
...Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., B. A., 1727 (Harvard), Governor-in-chief of Massachusetts Bay Colony, is announced by Houghton, Mifflin and Co. Hutchinson, it will be remembered, was the governor who in 1770 transferred the session of the General Court from Boston to Cambridge, much to the disgust of its members...
...done away with. He says that the Harvard athletic committee did not intend from the first to have the game with Yale given up, but only officially to show that they discountenanced the game as then played, The game that Harvard played with Princeton was so rough as to disgust some of the alumni who subsequently brought so much pressure to bear upon the committee that they were obliged to publish their letter. He positively asserted that Yale was not aimed at in the least but rather their own team. He says moreover that their main objection was that...
...dozen original poems on which the world sets the most trifling value; while we waste years in thus perniciously fostering idle verbal imitations, and in neglecting the rich fruit of ancient learning for its bitter useless and unwholesome husk-while we thus dwarf many a vigorous intellect, and disgust many a manly mind while a great university, neglecting in large neasure the literature and the philosophy of two leading nations, contents itself with being, in the words of one of its greatest sons, 'a bestower of rewards for schoolboy merit'-while thousands of despairing boys thus waste their precious hours...