Word: disrespectfully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given. New London will of course have many Harvard supporters on the evening of the 27th, and there can surely be no more pleasant and inspiring a preliminary to the contest than a Glee club concert. For many reasons the importance of the intercollegiate race cannot be overestimated. Without disrespect to college athletics in general, perhaps no branch of athletics has fewer objectionable features than rowing. It calls forth at once the manliness and the physical endurance of each contestant and offers little or no incentive to sharp dealing. In this, then, the crowning event of our college athletic year...
...January, 1866, the first number of the Collegian was published. It was a fortnightly paper devoted to college literature, and news, and from the start showed great disrespect for the college government. In April, 1866, after three numbers had been issued, the faculty ordered the discontinuance of the Collegian...
...abuse this privilege howsoever they see fit, "from rolling pennies down the aisle," to reading papers and talking. To men who are given to such practices as these, it may be entirely futile to point out to their callous sense of honor that they not only show the greatest disrespect to their instructors, not only waste their time and utterly loose sight of the prime object of a man's entering college, but also become exceedingly obnoxious to a large majority of the class. The only way to crush out this disgraceful disposition on the part...
...life and part of eternity to atone for. Abstinence from strong drink earnestly urged. Nine-tenths of our criminals are made by liquor, as well from the upper ranks of society as from the slums. Ignorance of what we are doing can make no difference as to the harvest. Disrespect for religious things can only work ruin in our own characters. No nation has prospered that has cast off the worship...
...examined; if he is sick, he is put in here and cured." "What is this pen?" asked the "professor." "That's a 'jug'" answered the middy evasively, and then further explained that one large misdemeanor - such as smuggling whiskey on board - or five small ones, - such as profanity or disrespect to officers, - were punished by three days in the "jug." Having explained the working of the capstan, he conducted us to the rear of the boat, where parallel bars, etc., have been erected. The men exercise there during the evening, often having interesting sparring and wrestling matches for their amusement...