Word: disgusting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Many of the spectators who had come down to see the race left in disgust, but others staid over and as a result the town tonight is filled with excitement and overflowing with strangers. All is quiet at the Harvard quarters but an unusually strong feeling of confidence is evident among the men which prophesies well for the race tomorrow...
...time to cause much consideration of its exact position, or to suggest a possible qualification of the promise, and when the time came for a final decision they found themselves apparently tied to a selection which they did not fully approve, and which is now causing general disgust...
...unique in its isolation. I presume to say there are few if any ladies, outside of the Corporation, who would absent themselves from the exercises on this account; and surely the display of femininity there in the past is evidence, perhaps overlooked by an introspective committee. The symptoms of disgust among the ladies is quite generally confined to those outside the enclosure where it is presumably not unseemly garments which give offence...
That these men should so far forget their class and the University at large, fills us with surprise, and disgust. At a time when the united efforts of the members of the three upper classes, the enthusiasm of the coachers, and the hearty support of the graduates, promised to bring back to Harvard her old supremacy in athletics, this disgraceful action can not be too severely condemned. For those persons to have thus sacrificed their own interests was disreputable enought, but that they should have so grossly neglected their duty to the other members of the team, and the coachers...
...disfigurement of the Fogg Art Museum, which was dicovered yesterday morning is one of the most contemptible acts that has been perpetrated in this University for years. It is a piece of cowardly bravado that merits no further comment, and we should have passed it over in silent disgust, had we not felt that as the daily paper of the University, it was our duty to voice the strong spirit of indignation that has been felt throughout the University...