Word: patronizing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mineveh, the library of Sardanapalus has been recovered, and by the brilliant studies of English and German scholars, the contents of that library have now become the possession of the world. Judged by his works, Sardanapalus is neither a weakling nor a sensualist, but as statesman and as patron of letters one of the most interesting characters of history...
...June number of the Beacon, the Boston University publication, contains some very amusing statistics of the class of eighty-six. Following are some of the headings into which it is divided: Future Occupation, Politics, Color Eyes, Color Hair, Size Hat, Beard, Patron Saint, Dance, No. of Plucks and Matrimonial Prospects. As Boston University is a co educational institution, one can readily conceive the supreme interest concentrated in these tables...
...some of their "Brethren," they will set before the rest of the world a fair pattern of the kindliness and brotherly love preached by Christ. This movement of exclusion, a bit of mediaeval intolerance must appear strange here in the most liberal university of America, - while Dr. Peabody, the patron saint of the Christian Brethren, still lives in our midst. In closing, it may not be out of place to quote from one whom Matthew Arnold calls "Henry More, that beautiful spirit." He writes thus: "A little religion may make a man schismatical, but a great deal will surely make...
...particularly good rooms having usually to content themselves with a loft in Massachusetts. There were certain privileged characters who were given a choice before the rest of their class, such as the President's freshman who chose first, followed by the instructors freshmen in the order of their patron's seniority. It will be seen that by this arrangement, Holworthy was practically given up to the seniors, as they would naturally choose the best rooms, it being their last year; but that for members of the other classes those rooms were really the most desirable that ranked about the middle...
...institution rescured it from oblivion. Two years ago our 'reform governor' was the involuntary means of lopping off one branch of the abuse at Harvard, but even this moderate reform was repudiated by a sister college. The fact that a man eats a commencement dinner or makes himself the patron of a college is hardly sufficient evidence of his ability to entitle him to a degree. So long as colleges continue to confer degrees, they ought to consider them of sufficient importance to preserve their dignity, but unless the present 'happy-go-lucky' system is done away with, and some...