Word: contempt
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Phillips Brooks House Association is a federal society comprising the several student religious organizations of the University, separated for the sake of coherence and closer intimacy, but united to serve the common ideals of the House,--Piety, Charity, and Hospitality. Here is strongest the Harvard contempt for superficiality and cant, but it is through the meetings of these societies or of the Bible or other discussion groups which originate here, that many a Harvard man develops his lightly accepted religious ideas into what is for him a true and satisfying religious life. It is through the joint efforts of these...
From the spectator's point of view, though the cheering at the game was admirably enthusiastic and truly spontaneous, its organization was far from perfect. Further, the unsportlike jeers and cat-calls on the occasion of our opponent's misplays were beneath contempt; when we talk about the attempts of men of other colleges to rattle pitchers, we should remember that, while we do not professedly organize demonstrations for the purpose, we tolerate many individual offenders...
...ratify the Union constitution. There will be phonograph speeches by Taft and Bryan, and President Roelker who will wind up the phonograph, will outline the Political Club's work during the coming campaign. Taft's speeches which will be recited are, "The Effect of the Proposed Jury Trial in Contempt Cases," "Postal Savings Banks," "What Constitutes an Unlawful Trust," and "The Functions of the Next Administration." The Bryan speeches will be, "The Trust Question," "The Publication of Campaign Contributions," "The Labor Question," and "The Guarantee of Bank Deposits...
...justice, some power to discriminate between heedlessness and moral turpitude? What is left for the really serious moral offences except expulsion, which we know is reserved for capital offenders? Such administration is in the interest of lawlessness, because it subverts discipline by creating sympathy for the culprits and contempt for the authorities. J. G. THORP '79. Cambridge, June...
Once more we are confronted by the question whether the Athletic Association is or is not going to carry out its tacit threat to hold up to contempt the Harvard men guilty of speculation in football tickets. Year after year it it has been rumored, but not openly stated, that the blacklist was to be published. Just as regularly have the guilty persons escaped public discountenance, and just as regularly has the blacklist continued to grow, despite the fact that the men on this list have been deprived of the privilege to apply for tickets in the future...