Word: contemptibility
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...unwilling spirit, and carried on during a season of balls, operas, and theatres, skating rinks, etc., in a perfunctory manner, it is the duty of educators to speak out plainly, and to denounce everything that tends to render diplomas worthless, and bring colleges into contempt...
Joined to this cynicism and contempt for what the world calls good, we find the modern spirit of questioning. There is nothing so sacred but it must be doubted. His is that same scientific "spirit of negation" which "turns back the strata, concluding coldly with: 'Here's Law! Where...
...furnishing of rooms, there is also a certain element of worry and uncertainty in settling what lectures are to be attended, and whether or no the use of "a coach" is advisable. In the arrangement of these matters, let us look with the eye of pity and contempt upon the work which falls upon the Tutors, and if they continually forget our names when we call upon them, and very evidently regard our presence as a necessary but still most annoying infliction, let us remember that they, too, are but human, and that it is to such as they that...
...firm stand in favor of the present system, and invokes the public to judge whether "when the good name of the university is draggled in the mire by her own sons, these reformers should be held to prove their damaging charges, or else, be silenced with the deserved contempt which awaits men who have not hesitated intentionally or unintentionally to compromise the innocent." These somewhat strong expressions have been evoked by the increasing frequency with which the merits of a dark and mysterious collection of clubs such as Yale possesses, have been challenged...
...would use a little good sense, or better, a little common fairness when dealing with Harvard, we should be most happy to refer to it. But so long as it descends to such impertinence as its past issue exhibits, its remarks can only be treated with the contempt they deserve...