Word: scornful
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...have been told there was once a day when the Illustrated fell just short of complete respectability. It is a hard judgment; but the scorn of the established literary institution for the yellow upstart is proverbial. The United States is said to be daily gaining in military strength by the European adoption of the Kilkenny Cat policy. By a similar path the Illustrated has emerged into the front ranks of the University's "best." It is to be both expected and highly desired that the Illustrated will do an ever increasing share of the representing of Harvard to the outside...
...with no ungenerous hand. His contributions to Harvard were countless and unstinted. "The immense University Museum, costly in the monetary sense, and absolutely unreplaceable for its carefully gathered specimens, is almost totally owing to him. The money he put out to build and enlarge it he would scorn to have mentioned. But no monument would suit him better than its curious and precious contents which were his life work and his life-long...
...fact that outside of the courses actually devoted to composition, little or no emphasis is laid upon the quality of the English used. It is frequently so completely ignored that the grade of A is given on a paper in which the sense is almost obscured by the fine scorn of the first elements of composition. The only way in which a man may hope to write good, clear English is by acquiring the habit of so doing. And it is perfectly useless to put him through a year or more of training in composition if he loses the habit...
...means renders impossible the use of blotters on which the necessary facts or formulae are written, but to the universal feeling among the undergraduates that such underhand practices are dishonorable. Cribbing distinctly is not tolerated. Offenders in most cases are, and in all cases should be, held up to scorn...
...actor from behind the scenes. After a man has been taught how to play the game, he should be allowed to play it; and the men on a team should oppose the idea of having their plays in a game directed by a paid coach as they would scorn the idea of having a tutor stand behind them to tell them what to write in their examination book...