Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other ancient religion. These woodmen the Brahmins call God by three different names. "Sut," meaning being; "Chit," intelligence; "Anando," bliss or joy. Good authorities state that the Hindoo religion is dark and despairing, but this is not so. For this pessimistic idea springs not from despair but from disdain. In the spirit of divine ecstacy the Buddhist and Brahmin put aside pleasure of existence, trying to see the unseen. For when one was promised everything that life can give, he refused, but demanded the mysteries after death...
...also of the newly discovered wisdom of the present. Twenty-five or fifty years ago when History or Political Economy were but accessories to an intellectual development which owed nothing to them, the average college professor and the newly packeted, stamped, and delivered A. B. felt a high-born disdain for a study like History. To them a study which had occupied no place in their education was of but small value in the education of others. Today the verdant youth who has not learned better finds that his delay has cost him a seat on the crowded benches...
...Yale once more claims the college championship in rowing. How absurd this is. We should think that a college that can boast of so many real achievements would disdain to stoop to claiming what they have no right to. Yale rows but one race, and refuses all other challenges, and then claims the championship of all the colleges. If any college has a right to such claim, it is the University, for we have by far the best record of any. but we make no such claim...
...advance the interest of the common school; that they should be interested in politics, have opinions, scan principles, and not stand aloof because of the cry against parties or politicians; that they should be afraid of error, never be afraid of truth, and never suffer themselves to speak with disdain of faith, for this is the beginning and the end of all science...
...Even the founder's day of certain Northern colleges is denied the plodding student. One would say that he ought to get through with an immense deal of work, and the local legend is certainly to that effect. The seriousminded alumnus of the University of Virginia assumes a fine disdain for the lotus-eating students of Harvard, Yale and Columbia. If one may take the examinations propounded here as a criterion, every Northern collegian will doubtless be willing to admit that it cannot "seem always afternoon" to the University of Virginia student. These examinations, incredibly enough, occupy from...