Word: disdained
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...ratio to their possibilities, he finds that the colleges have accomplished very little. Not that the leaders such as Professor Baker here at Harvard and Thomas Wood Stevens at Carnegie Institute of Technology, are to blame. They have given their all to the work. It is a certain "Puritan disdain" which causes the universities to "dawdle". Harvard has a man who is not an impractical dreamer, but one who has achieved more in his field than anyone else. And if we look for proof? Witness the playwrights, producers, actors, scene-designers, and critics who have come out of Cambridge...
France. Paris viewed the American victory with disdain. French racing men assert uncompromisingly that their three-year-old Epinard is the best horse in the world...
Anybody, student or section leader or member of the faculty perhaps regarding such matters with lofty disdain, who sees in "English A" no more than the writing and correcting of themes; only a year's more or less superfluous exercise in English composition which ought to have been disposed of in the preparatory schools, misses, it seems to me, the whole meaning and purpose of the course. Undoubtedly there are, and long have been, section leaders in the course itself who have thus misconstrued its significance, and so have led their students to regard it with contempt. That would account...
...returning ever to a hidden bone. He hath no interest in us, and careth not what he may give but only what he may gain. He lacketh the gentler qualities of good breeding. His garments offendeth our eyes. He gaineth mental prowess only by long labour which we disdain. Wherefore is he here? His preparation was among persons of his own sort and now he cometh from them, intruding here amongst...
...fortune. He hath always found the satisfaction of every safe desire at the tips of his fingers and many a pleasure which reason and decency forbid. He is concerned solely with the acquisition of those honors among his fellows which he findeth easy of attainment. Why doth he so disdain us? All we have, we have acquired by ourselves. Is their fortune then to their credit? Neither applause nor favor do we ask, but to be treated as men. There is in us experience at the least. There is in them but appetites at the most. Why are they here...