Word: insultable
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...weak foundation. My daughter says that she cannot walk through the college yard without being stared at by every conceited fellow that chances to pass her. It seems to me that young men with the reputed good breeding of Harvard students would recognize the impropriety - yes, insult of such conduct. I can assure them that I shall make it decidedly unpleasant for any one who hereafter offers the insult to my daughter which I have just mentioned...
...there were but few incidents to disturb its harmony, and the result, we may hope, satisfied the class. The demonstrations made at one stage of the proceedings were highly reprehensible; any one section should learn to respect the choice of the majority, and to do otherwise is an insult to the class. As usual, the larger share of the offices fell to one society, rather in the natural course of events than from any preconcerted action, and, in one or two cases, by the votes of other sections of the class. It would have been better if a larger number...
...sparred cautiously, although hard hitting was indulged in toward the end. To many Turner appeared to have the best of it, though the judges decided in favor of Heilbron; upon which a number of boorish Freshmen proceeded to display their ill breeding by hissing the judges' decision, an insult we have never before seen at Harvard, and hope never to see repeated. The two-hand vault followed, and brought out seven men; the bar was started at 5 feet 2 in. T. C. Batchelder, '83, and A. C. Denniston, '83, were the first to withdraw...
...Dizzy must be pensioned; his lordship replied with some asperity, that he was writing another novel, which fact called for charity, though not for cash, and that, at any rate, he had shown up Thackeray to the world; whereupon Mr. F-lds called upon his lordship to retract the insult to that great novelist, saying that to slander his (F.'s) friend was to slander him (F.). The discussion was finally ended by the chairman's remarking that he wanted the money for building an L to the Concord school; and then he called upon the Sage of that place...
...pathetically. Then T-nnys-n said that some poets were poets, and so was Walt Wh-tm-n and Walk-in Miller. Mr. Rottessi intimated that he was another, and that - Here Mr. Rustin interfered, saying that Art was Art, and the Poets were Fools. At this insult, a hundred tottering forms indignantly arose, and the constitution was forgotten in a windy war of words, in the midst of which Algernon Charles could be heard screaming...