Word: contemptibility
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...superiority of those students who. putting aside the petty spirit which drives men to work for marks or examinations alone, adopt instead an ultimate idea of true and broad culture. An abuse too prevalent at Harvard-the nursing system of private tutors-is treated with the open and unqualified contempt it deserves. If the Monthly continues thus ably to discuss matters of great importance for the welfare of the University, it will be certain to obtain a larger influence in directing college sentiment than it has had in the past...
When our attention was called to this attack in the Wesleyan Argus, we treated it with the contempt it deserved by passing it by unnoticed, remembering the source from which it came. In a recent number of the Princetoniun, however, the editors have seen fit to publish the extracts from the editorials in question. If, as it seems, those statements of the Argus are to go the rounds of the college press, we have, in justice to the Harvard team, to notice them far enough to deny them. What movive actuated the editors of the Princetonian to reprint the statements...
...that walketh not in the counsel of the wicked, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful." Any serious mind, the speaker said, would pray to be delivered from irreligion and immorality, but it is not apparent at once that contempt should be placed in the same category and on the same level with these evils. The sin of the scorner is, however, much more insidious, deceitful and benumbing than that of the ungodly man. To know the good and then to despise it, to yield to the contagion of irreverence...
...unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with them in the laboratory or the class room for months, and may have given evidence of good, solid, manly qualities. In the majority of cases the man so snubbed will gradually, I think, rise above the contempt or condescension of his high-toned classmates, if he is a man of real worth; but think of the hard and bitter experience he must first go through, even if he possesses only the average amount of sensitiveness. I think the orator of the senior class dinner uttered a real...
Further, there are not a few cases of men who never succeed in winning their way into their class-mates good graces. (I do not here include the few men in every class who are truly worthy of contempt and disapproval.) These men may be naturally good and agreeable fellows, who come here without knowing anyone, repel those with whom they come in contact by an unfortunate lack of manners or by a hampering poverty, and then are frozen up into themselves by the snobbery which they encounter, and lose all the sweetness of college life in the solitude...