Word: insultable
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...seem to certain Freshmen that insult has been added to injury. At a time when few occupants of the Charles River Palaces have recovered their equanimity, they are informed that Dean Brown of Yale will speak to them in Smith Halls Common Room. Some may feel that in a few weeks they might have so quashed their community feeling that they could have received this man graciously--even joyously. It has been asked in Gore Hall whether the Dean will discuss football in his address...
...bill, members of those religious sects which forbid participation in war, as well as clergymen and students at theological colleges, will be excused from service. That provision is practically sound, for if a man, having weighed well his decision, would honestly and actually prefer to be exposed to the insults, the personal and material injury of an insolent foreign foe, rather than defend in war his person and his property against insult and injury, then he should not be forced to take up arms in defence of that which he so little regards. Other men, who prize more highly honor...
...with its obsolete arms and want of training, proved to be inefficient and inferior to its opponents in her recent wars is a fact, but to attribute this without any ground to the reason that the Chinese are "cowardly" can not but be construed as an act of wanton insult of national character. If the Chinese are given the best of equipment and training, as the people are in this country, the question whether they are cowardly can then be decided on the battlefield in a future war. If China should have awakened fifty years earlier, and succeeded in establishing...
That was two years ago. It has taken our nation that long, through many more losses, and through hidden or open insult, to arouse its slumbering passion. "The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine...
...race." It has come to this then, that the vulgar fanaticism of that editor, and those like him, can turn on the finest expression of American activity the war has produced; that a wretched conceited little scribbler, sitting in his sanctum, can offer impertinent advice and a gratuitous insult to his own classmates who are working and dying while he is editing whimpering little verses. Truly, those who believe in universal training, and even in the participation of America in the war, may say: "We have no need of such aid or of such defenders." C. V. WRIGHT...