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Word: insult (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Trinity Tablet has just discovered that Herr Joachim has been made Oxford Professor of Music. It is sufficiently absurd to mention this fact of musical and general interest in a column headed "At other Colleges," but to do this two months behind time is certainly adding insult to injury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call a fellow-proctor to enjoy the laugh with him. Now, examination-books are written for instructors; proctors have no right to read them, and those few who take the right and make sport over them insult every student in the examination-room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/23/1877 | See Source »

...intellect not. Age only adds wisdom to his boundless store of learning. AEsop's fable of the aged Lion and the Ass is just as pertinent to-day as ever. The old Lion is not helpless quite yet. It would have been prudent for the Ass to defer his insult a little longer. He has been too precipitous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISCOURTEOUS CRITICISM. | 4/21/1876 | See Source »

...have heretofore supposed that Memorial Hall was for the use of the students, but from recent occurrences it appears not. When men visit the Hall and deliberately insult the students while at their meals by standing with their hats on, if their conduct is hinted at as being disagreeable, by the medium of feet in conjunction with the floor, whoever is seen making any disturbance is pounced upon by the Directors and expelled or suspended, to serve as a warning to others. What right the Directors have to do this we fail to see, unless it be for the reason...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

...would think of entering the dining-room of the Revere House and standing with his hat on, nor would such conduct be tolerated for a moment. It would be considered as an insult to those present, and measures would speedily be taken to correct the manners of the offender. The same rule applies to visitors at Memorial Hall; and it is our opinion that if men, through ignorance of common rules of politeness, persist in standing in the gallery with their hats on, students are perfectly justified in endeavoring to teach them better manners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

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