Word: contemptibility
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...said in part: Before the great war between China and Japan in 1894, the popular belief of all white people was that the yellow people were a very inferior race, who could be dealt with as they pleased. The outcome of this war has changed this opinion of supreme contempt to one of respect, and in some cases even of fear, for in some minds the fear of a great Mongolian invasion immediately arose...
...guilty of the dishonorable deed than any words of censure from us. Without discussing the question whether there was any real humor in subjecting to annoyance and embarrassment an honored and respected officer of the University, we appeal to every student to let his contempt be known for conduct so insolent and so unworthy of Harvard men. If the act was prompted by a spirit of bravado and a desire for distinction, let the latter be accorded in such terms that it will not soon be sought again...
...kind that followed the Princeton game this year. It may hurt the feelings of eleven men to be cursed out after a defeat, but not as much as it aggravates eleven hundred men constantly to hear the name of their Alma Mater held up to ridicule and contempt...
...outrageous attack upon Harvard which we print today can have been prompted only by extreme malevolence. Accusations directed against Harvard as a rich man's college we have before this heard with contempt, but we know of no paper which has hitherto allowed itself such utter license in attempting to sully what is most fair in the reputation of our University, as that in which the Illustrated American indulges: "It were better for the life and morals of Boston that Harvard College were under the sea;" and again, "The effect of Harvard on the morals of Boston is about...
There is often a tendency noticed to speak slightingly and even contemptuously of the wealthy classes at Harvard, merely because they are wealthy while other equally worthy men are not. In a Harvard man particularly, such contempt is scarcely becoming. Throughout the history of the college, its steady development in all directions has in large part been made possible by the benefactions of just such wealthy men. Many of our University buildings bear the names of their wealthy donors; our athletic fields have been gifts to the University; our highest professional chairs have not seldom been established by the liberality...