Word: condescendingly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...taking Harvard out of the league, defeat is invited in any encounter (except boating) with Yale, for want of the same discipline against first-rate antagonists; and regular defeat means discouragement and disgust for the loser. Nor, we suppose, is it certain that, under the new conditions, Yale would condescend to play with Harvard at all, while to be shut up to the minor New England colleges would be intolerable to Harvard. The Overseers are therefore accused of seeking indirectly the end which they affect to repudiate. The CRIMSON hints at rebellion; but most significant is its remark that "such...
...people has been intrusted - our colleges, for instance - the very opposite course of conduct prevails. Harvard College has not had a professor of oratory for three generations, and this too despite the fact that again and again its graduates and friends have urged it to change its ways and condescend to teach its graduates how to address, in a well-bred yet forcible way, a primary or a town meeting. The only instruction to-day in oratory in that college where its other professors have creditable salaries, is given by a young man called to the inferior office...
...they have completely failed to grasp it. They all think that such little points as being sharp on time and keeping strict time while at the chestweights, are of such slight importance that it is not worth their while to pay any attention to them. If they condescend to come up and row for the benefit of the class, what more can be looked for? A great deal more is looked for. They are rowing in order to beat Columbia next year at New London, and they can only do that by steady, hard work and strict attention to details...
...proverb that "charity begins at home." It the President would only look around at the poor Harvard students who have been here year after year, and yet know him only through the newspaper reports of what he is doing elsewhere, we feel sure that he would condescend to enlighten the heretics, at home instead of laboring abroad. With this suggestion and faint remonstrance, we would express the hope that the President will deem the invitation a standing one, and accept it when the labors of his position are less exacting...
...colored waiters at Memorial does not condescend to speak to the men at his table in English. He only talks French, a new accomplishment which, however, is not required for admission to the hall as a waiter. It is needless to say that the learned sophomores at the table of the waiter in question, sometimes have hard work to make their wants known to this accomplished servant...