Word: insult
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn but as a relief measure, a means of stopping cramming and cheating at examinations by removing the examinations. While admitting that the Honor System in college has little to recommend it and the policing of examination rooms remains an insult to many, yet the Columbia method seems to approach the problem from the wrong end, to put the cart before the horse. Before undergraduates may be allowed all the privileges of the "desire" program, they must be educated up to education by desire. In this course of sprouts, gradual extension...
...insult to our sister University is clear, but the chagrin grows to dismay at the thought of what may be offered by those undergraduates who dislike Princeton. And when the enemies of Vassar take to interior decoration we must look to our shame. Furthermore such an insidious attack is scarcely fair to our friends at Cambridge. The shock to their morale when they see room after room defiantly denouncing their beloved Aims Mater will not quickly be forgotten. They will realize suddenly that we are no longer bound by the ordinary inhibitions and fears: it is simply that Yale doesn...
...Blatt = slang noun of unknown origin, meaning rebuff, censure, Insult...
...last generation still remembers the Duke's cowardly insult to Queen Victoria, who had previously allowed him to enter the British Army and had shown him many courtesies...
...They promise to change the face of the Goddess of Liberty as it appears on the present coinage, so that the lady will look less like a senescent schoolmarm and more like a cutie." (Insult to the Goddess...