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...rank, the cadets, occurred in 1794. Seven years later one George Barron undertook to conduct an acaartillery and engineers, and the creademy for the few cadets then in service; but, says the Colonel of the Corps, "the Institution soon ran into disorder, and the Teacher into contempt." Under Government management, however, the Academy began to broaden its scope of learning, and the early curriculum of Mathematics and Engineering was supplemented by Frence and Drawing. At that time the 30 odd cadets lived in barracks dating from the Revolution, boarded promiscuously, and attended, classes in the two-story wooden "Academy...
Occasional perusal of the editorial columns of the Boston Transcript should be sufficient to familiarize any reader with such characteristics of that paper as political prejudice or smug contempt for new and radical ideas. No one is surprised to see Transcript editors acclaim as inspired every word which issues from a Republican month, dismiss with a shrug the work of advanced political thinkers, or threaten the country with imminent ruin from communist machinations. But complete as the conservative and reactionary attitude of the Transcript may usually be, it is still able on occasion to surprise the most constant...
...Smith a distaste for the existing Republican regime, a desire to let others do his work, and a habit of living at public expense. It should also be mentioned that he enjoys with Messrs. Hoover and Smith an easy familiarity with the wealthy and well-born and a healthy contempt for workers. Harvard Thomas for-Pres. Club...
...will be of little avail to take alarm at the statistics. If Radcliffe has over whelmed the sneers of a decade, and emerged from a chrysalis of contempt as the most alluring fata Morgana for several thousand potential bachelors, what use caution...
...third best to the professions. But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England. He wants English young men to study for business. Present British industrialists he holds in contempt. Many lack wits enough to be army corporals, he exaggerated, exasperated...