Word: contemptable
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...there are a few misguided individuals who turn a deaf ear to these pleasing distractions and take no relaxation from their grind. Such students cannot claim our sympathy - a man so devoted to work as not to appreciate such disinterested generosity is a poor, senseless being who deserves the contempt of all good people...
...possesses a spark of college feeling, would be offended by a simple request to subscribe to the university crew. We can assure the perpetrator of the deed that if his name - which he had the cowardice to conceal - shall ever be made known, he will meet with merited contempt from all his fellow-students...
...would be safe from occasional maltreatment at the hands of coach-drivers and laborers. Excluded as he is from good society, and confined to that of his associates, poverty-stricken, neglected, despised, he is yet fond of life and enterprise, proud of his slender knowledge, and full of contempt for the blunders of the government. From his obscure corner he looks at everything with a hostile eye, and his opposition to the state and society becomes more pronounced with every new revolutionary rising and Nihilistic attempt. - [Kolnische Zeitung...
...virulent free trade editorial contained in this morning's issue of the HERALD. Its writer seriously discredits the interest of Harvard students in the tariff question when he asserts that there is little likelihood of the protectionist pamphlets being read, and he also takes an unwarranted opportunity to cast contempt upon certain aminent advocates of protection. The arguments advanced in these documents are, naturally, in portions, severely partisan and at times inconsequent, having been originally expressed orally at a public meeting; but that they are wholly absurd and readily fallacious in statement is hardly to be believed, even...
...college, for which we have, indeed, every reason to be grateful, will take no trouble to inquire into the merits or demerits of any dispute in which Harvard is engaged, adopting that view which is the most obvious, or is presented to them first, do more to bring contempt and discredit upon their Alma Mater in one year than undergraduates could do in fifty...