Word: contempts
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...further suggested that the quadrangle plan, since it looks like an imitation of a Harvard idea", might be repulsive to true-blue sons of Eli. To deduce, as the Herald has, that everything at Harvard is held in utter contempt at New Haven, is to disregard fact. Too many people believe that the spirit of the football field carries over to all relations between the two schools...
...printing the pictures of Zbyszko & Ape. had given the plaintiff cause for action. Further ambiguity was banished by Justice John V. McAvoy who described the photograph as that of a "hideous-looking gorilla," declared that it tended to disgrace Zbyszko, and to bring him into ridicule and contempt...
Last week The Dartmouth (undergraduate daily) aroused by past indignities to chaperons, plumping for abolition of chaperons, editorialized: "Many of us are unwilling to ask our mothers, or anyone we respect, to bear the brunt of universal disregard, and even the shade of contempt which cannot but arise from the office of chaperon as it exists at present...
...today reads as follows: "Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing, or contumeliously reproaching God, His cration, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt or ridicule the Holy Word of God contained in the Holy Scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in gaol for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than $300, and may also be bound to good behavior...
Well, after two or three years the quondam Princetonian returns with a varicose accent, a mouth full of hot mush, a dandified swagger, and a fairly general contempt for things in this bally o country...