Word: insulters
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...Readiness shown to think of war: Nation LXI, p. 458 (Dec. 26, 1895).- (2) General appeal to bellicose feeling: Senator Walcott in Cong. Rec. p. 976 (Jan. 22, 1896).- (b) Tends to pervert standards of national honor and greatness.- (1) Insistance on immediate forcible resistance to "anything like an insult," as a test of national honor: C. E. Norton in Forum XX, p. 649-651 (Feb. 1896); Wm. James in Cong. Rec. p. 461 (Dec. 31, 1895); Nation, LXI, pp. 420-421 (Dec. 12, 1895); and ibid...
...sink all differences of opinion that had previously obtained and unite heartily and disinterestedly in support of the man who was finally chosen. This is where the honor of Harvard has been assaild and it is upon the supporters of the defeated candidates that the brunt of the insult falls. To them we appeal to give the lie to an insinuation whose utterance alone has already done more harm to Harvard, coming as it does from a usually reliable source, than any criticism that has been published for years...
...venture to deny that: I venture to say that the pride that rebels at a public expression of superiority from a mere idler, son of his father, devourer of labors of other hands is a noble and amiable trait. Pity the spirit that does not resent even unintentional insult on such a delicate and sacred feeling. I have no doubt the statement of the editor of the CRIMSON that he intended no harm is perfectly true so far as conscious intention goes. But what hurts is that the farce of the class feeling should have to become so strong...
...which appears in another column is printed solely as an example of one style of writing which we shall in future refuse to accept. The communication column of the CRIMSON is not intended as a place in which any member of the University may feel at liberty publicly to insult the paper, or to air any and every fancied grievance against it. A certain amount of calm criticism of our own attitude we have never refused to publish; but extravagances like those of our present correspondent we shall hereafter receive in the personal spirit in which they are written. Today...
...crisis of the play occurs when the Cid is called upon to avenge the insult offered to his own father by Don Gormas whose daughter he has loved for years. Here we seem to have a glimpse at the workings of his heart, he must choose either life-long disgrace or mortal conflict with the father of Chimene. He hesitates but a moment while he looks over the blasted hopes of the life which has just begun, then he turns sternly to his duty, with death or a life without Chimene as the only possible prospect for the future...