Word: insult
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last speak out about. Above all the cries for plank side-walks and for better ventilation, this one calls loudly for redress. That men have been patient of it so long shows how long-suffering, how unindependent the college student is. I refer, sir, to the glaring evil - yea, insult - to every Harvard man of having the covers of all blank books for examination purposes colored blue. Blue, sir, the color of our rivals on many a gloomy field of war! Blue! the flaunting color of the base cravens who train and practise their fiendish arts at New Haven. Small...
...insult to injury, there are some instructors - I will not say who - who return these same books marked in blue pencil. Could human - much less tutorial - depravity go farther...
...Haven Tenney was called as a witness in a Delaware court and when the judge asked him his name and he answered, "Haven Tenney," the judge remarked that every man has a name, the witness was trying to insult the court, and was therefore fined $10. Some men are cussed with mean cognomens. - [Post...
...weak foundation. My daughter says that she cannot walk through the college yard without being stared at by every conceited fellow that chances to pass her. It seems to me that young men with the reputed good breeding of Harvard students would recognize the impropriety - yes, insult of such conduct. I can assure them that I shall make it decidedly unpleasant for any one who hereafter offers the insult to my daughter which I have just mentioned...
...there were but few incidents to disturb its harmony, and the result, we may hope, satisfied the class. The demonstrations made at one stage of the proceedings were highly reprehensible; any one section should learn to respect the choice of the majority, and to do otherwise is an insult to the class. As usual, the larger share of the offices fell to one society, rather in the natural course of events than from any preconcerted action, and, in one or two cases, by the votes of other sections of the class. It would have been better if a larger number...