Word: contemptibility
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...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...
...Contempt of Court, Criminal and Civil," by J. H. Beale, Jr., '82; "Reasonableness of Maximum Rates as a Constitutional Limitation upon Rate Regulation," by F. M. Cobb; "Right of a Stockholder, Suing in Behalf of a Corporation, to Complain of Misdeeds Occurring Prior to His Acquisition of Stock," by M. Sea songood...
...think it is rather the result of generations of individual thought and action which have made Harvard stand for what it does today. For the newspaper notoriety which our disagreements invariably gain, we are not to blame except as they originate from Harvard men, and renewed expressions of contempt in these cases are hardly necessary...
...University. We do not speak entirely of those self-sufficient students who pride themselves on the fact that they have never been inside Appleton Chapel, or seen the stained windows in Memorial. Nor can we admit in this case the entire truth of the adage that familiarity breeds contempt. It is more probable the somewhat confined routine of University life and the busy rush of undergraduate activities, which close a man's eyes to the picturesqueness and interest of his environments...