Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college should all the more heartily give them its support. The crew has done its part, has gone to work with a zeal and determination never shown before, but there is a disposition among some inconsiderate men, who think it their part to stand aloof and sneer at the earnest but unsuccessful efforts in the past, to refuse the money which is absolutely necessary...
Under the head of "Wah! Wah! Wah! Harvard," is published in the last number of the Spectator, a piece of writing remarkable for its unprecedented character, in that it is a discourteous, ignorant, and even vulgar attack upon Harvard methods in athletics. Worse than the sneer at Harvard's ill-success of the last three years, is the implied accusation of insincerity on the part of the of the leaders in athletics. We do not wish further to characterize the article in question. Harvard men may read it for themselves...
...last. Yes, the youth then were more mature and (individually) they wore Indian blankets, made by the Bay State Mills, in chapel; and there then prevailed "a high, keen, intellectual energy among us all." But why continue such quotations? No true Harvard student can fail to catch the latent sneer so carelessly concealed...
...boys," as one New York paper styles us, or a "set of indifferent, dissolute young men," as still another journal classifies us. Every university has the same imputations laid at its doors in the same blind carping spirit. While we acknowledge all that is true, we protest against the sneer conveyed in the term "Harvard Morality...
...recent exchanges, in a somewhat extended notice of the Harvard publications, has taken occasion to sneer at one of our papers, and show by invidious comparisons that our publications are not what they profess to be. While we do not desire to question the taste of the writer of such a criticism, we still feel that the courtesy of the press ought to have influenced the expression. The kindly feeling which has long existed between the various college papers, cannot easily be destroyed by criticisms of such a nature, but more pleasant relations will result in the future...