Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fully command of himself, and concluded by hoping that if he had used any unbecoming or disrespectful language the officer would overlook it in consideration of the fact that he was-well, that he was perhaps not quite himself. "Not yourself, sir," retorted the proctor, with great scorn; "you were drunk, sir! Infernally drunk, sir! In fact," and here Mr. Sophocles' voice softened, "you were so extremely drunk as to be a curipsity, and on that ground I'll not report...
...well for the great institution of crew training and its effects. The ideal which reasonably co-ordinates mental, moral, and physical training, permitting no disparagement of either, is nobly borne out by such a showing as is presented by these statistics. The thinly disguised doctrine of monastic denial and scorn of physical culture, which Dr. Crosby is trying to revive in this country, stands ill in the face of such facts...
...hastily from his seat to stop the car for a pretty young lady who may be sitting opposite to him and give the cord attaching to the register a tremendous jerk, thus calling down upon himself the wrath of the conductor, the ridicule of his fellow passengers and the scorn of the young lady in question. No, no! give us cold cars, slow horses, inattentive conductors and little straw, but in heaven's name remove the gong...
With characteristic scorn of all effeminacy and that severe manliness that is all her own, Yale now declares herself "heartily tired, both mentally and physically," of "Harvard's puerile remarks in regard to Yale's 'rough game.'" And now, gentlemen beware! do not touch upon the theme again; Yale is tired of it. Do not further seek to raise the anger of the New Haven lion. The News believes that its readers wish to hear no more on the subject, you know, and the Courant very properly "had hoped to be able to drop the subject of foot-ball...
...came to college it was different with us writers for the press, when, at our slightest hint of dissatisfaction innumerable mass meetings and investigating committees, and I don't know what all, used to arise to right the wrongs at which we so sternly pointed the finger of scorn. But now things seem to be altogether changed. These Harvard man are quite too incomprehensible. "Tis another exhibition of Harvard "indifference," I am sure. Our most scathing philippics seem to have no effect...