Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...does not, but one would think that the men who work hard and faithfully for six months of the year, who go through a period of training much more rigid than any other sport, and who give the last ounce of their strength in the Yale race, would bitterly resent such a lack of appreciation on the part of the men they strive so hard worthily to represent. As has been said before, the average undergraduate has no faith in the present system, a system which makes possible such dastardly stories as circulated about the country last summer concerning...
...fact so well known that it hardly needs to be demonstrated. Just to prove it, if you doubt it, ask the first ten men you meet in the Yard how much ready money they have with them, available for charity or anything else. Their answer will indicate why they resent indiscriminate personal appeals...
Even after this disturbances occasionally occurred at prayers, those who thought they had any grievances taking advantage of such time to resent them. Compulsory attendance upon religious exercises seemed to many to justify their using every means to evade or disregard them. Thus the bell was turned up and filled with water which froze at night: the rope on which it was hung was cut and the Bible was stolen from the pulpit...
Undergraduates may not always spend as much time as they should in poring over their books and perhaps they do not attend their lectures with the utmost regularity, but whether they be students or not, men resent having their time wasted by others. To this they are obliged to submit in many of the weekly conferences which are common here, especially in history and economic courses. In these courses it is customary to devote half of one hour each week to a short paper on the assignment of reading and to spend the remainder of the time in discussion. Such...