Word: insulting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unfortunate, but manly and dignified race; and they should receive from all spectators here, and especially from Harvard men, that courteous and respectful treatment which they are perfectly able to exact from the players who meet them hand to hand in the line-up. Of course no insult to the visitors was intended; but to make their customs an object of ridicule in so public a way, and in their very faces, was a piece of arrogance which, though not purposely offensive, must have cut deep into Indian sensibilities. Very truly yours, EDWIN H. HALL...
...that the men whom the Republic is about to expose to bullets and yellow fever suspect this University community of lukewarm loyalty to the country which it has served so often and so simply. If we can not all of us join these men, let us at least not insult them by saying that their lives are less valuable than ours. If we can not convince them that we are patriotic, let us at least not convince them that we are cads...
...folly they magnify it to an outrage and still call us children. Considering the character of the trick, I cannot imagine that it should have been conceived in any spirit but that of harmless fun-a spirit which seldom enough gets the better of our dignity. If an insult were intended to Professor Wendell surely something would have been done which would have left us in no doubt as to the intention. As to the insult to the class suggested by the writer in Wednesday's CRIMSON, I think the laughter at the time of the interruption to the lecture...
...conclusion of a remarkably interesting series of talks on one of the great periods of literature; it was not only an act of gross discourtesy to the gentleman who for several months has given himself earnestly and successfully to the work of discussing that period; it was an insult to the whole class, inasmuch as it assumed that they would be amused by the trick and while the joker remains unknown, leaves them responsible for the act as a body. That act I wish strongly to deplore and I write as a member of English 8 whose feeling in regard...
Here then is a matter in which all can help. If everybody will keep quiet until he knows what he is talking about, and will call to account any unwarrantable statements made in his presence, ninetenths of this clap trap can be stopped. It is an insult to the coach, the captain, the players, and the whole University, and has been too long endured...