Word: contemptibility
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...took occasion to say recently, the pity of the students for the ignorance of the professors in regard to athletics, was altogether too strongly tinctured with contempt. The counsel of a dyspeptic professor on the conduct of undergraduate sports is calculated to excite the derision and despite of the sporting undergraduate. The professor is the disinterested observer of Lucretius, who, from the shore, inspects the great labor of another in the vaist of the boat, or who cushions the top rail of a fence, and from that tranquil eminence looks out from under an umbrella, and through spectacles probably green...
...They evidently intend to ridicule the ministry of the Methodist Church and show their contempt for it because there were ministers on board the train. One of them pointed to the rear of the car and said, 'there is the bar.' If these young men had been drunk, we would have supposed that they were on a drunken carousal and when they got sober they would be ashamed of their conduct, but as they appeared to be sober we supposed that it was a premeditated attempt to ridicule the ministers on board or their church...
...feel no shame or compunction if at the end of many years we thrust our youth, in all their unwarned ignorance, through the open gate of life-while, I say, such a system as this continues and flourishes, which most practical men have long scorned with an immeasurable contempt, do not let us consider that we have advanced a single step in reforming education, to reform which, in the words of Leibnitz, is to reform society and to reform mankind...
...Harvard or Yale course. But this I will say, that in my time I have met many Harvard men and found but one a sincere Christian. With the rest of them the pursuit of a secular knowledge seemed to have led to skepticism and a thinly disguised contempt for all things sacred. [T. B. Connery, N. Y. Times...
Milligan has a cold contempt for those skeptics "who attack first principles and confound their readers or hearers with paroxysms...