Word: disrespectful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...papers, useless and insulting laughter are participated in at each lecture, much to the discredit of all the men in the course. Cat calls are bad enough, but when it comes to putting cats themselves in the instructor's chair, the affair becomes very childish indeed. The constant disrespect shown by the members of this section is a reflection upon the class of ninety-seven and upon the University as a whole. Strangers visiting this course would receive a very low impression of Harvard and Harvard men in general. It is the place of every self-respecting...
...snobbery. Here, as every where else, men are generally rated-at what they are worth, whether rich or poor. No man is scorned simply because of poverty, or respected. for his wealth. alone. Nor is "menial service" a title to disrespect; of that the Foxcroft club is ample witness. I boarded there for two years, and certainly no men were more respected than those who waited on table...
...event of great athletic triumphs - and cheered wildly for them and their class. It is very rare indeed for such fraternal relations to exist between two successive classes, and the occasion affords only another instance to prove that the art of debating is no longer held in disrespect at Yale...
...judge anything of the senior class eleven from watching their play yesterday, we should say that they are sadly in want of a captain. This is without the slightest disrespect towards the present captain, whose valuable services are required with the 'varsity squad. We have no doubt that it is hard for him to appoint a substitute; and it may be equally hard for the eleven to choose a successor. But however difficult the problem, Ninety two should find some way to settle matters very speedily and get one man to direct their foot ball work both...
...energy and never failing intelligence of the captain of the crew. He had to grapple with the same question which had bailed our crew captains for five successive years and he had to grapple with it under more discouraging conditions than any of the others did. It is no disrespect to them to say that he worked with more intelligence than did any of them. All of them did everything that men could do physically. But Captain Perkins put mind as well as body into the work; and he solved the knotty questions in Harvard boating. He introduced system into...