Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gone, a call for a game was able only to bring out a crowd of from fifteen to twenty, half of whom were freshmen, and for two weeks these continued to play a series of loose irregular games among themselves. Then came the challenge from Harvard and, to the disgust of all the surprise of many, the managers were obliged to refuse because of a lack of a trained eleven. This unfortunate event had at least the effect of rousing a desire to have the team play somebody...
...would not be so bad if the results of such boorishness attached alone to the men who took part in the affair, but the misfortune of the whole matter lies in the fact that the good name and repute of Harvard must suffer. Even the man who, filled with disgust, must sit in quiet while the performance is going on, feels that he too will be held responsible by the outside world from the mere fact that he belongs to the college where the affair takes place...
...almost anything that his senior wishes. This is called "fagging." "The sixth-form boy may be a tailor's son, the first-form fag the son of a duke; school distinctions take precedence of all others." This custom of fagging is gradually dying out, however, much to the disgust of the conservative fathers who have been through it themselves...
...forgery; but the questions on which they do seek information are in some cases only a degree less insulting to those to whom they are addressed. The information of this sort which they collect and spread before the public, it is needless to say, excites no other feeling than disgust in the mind of every one at all sensitive to the claims of decency and propriety. Like other matters of taste it is not a subject for argument. It is difficult to see how any instructor in an institution where such a publication is issued can avoid blushing...
...skill for the stronger to pound the one who cannot defend himself. Pluck and skill are what is sought after in these meetings, but not when they both degenerate into a brutal spectacle, there can be no pleasure in witnessing it. The only feeling in many are pity and disgust, instead of admiration for good athletics, and I think I voice the sentiments of a large number of men, when I say that boxing ought to be dropped from the contested events...