Appallment

the furious slaughter of them was a great discouragement and appallment to the rest: that there died upon the place all the chieftains

I supopse we might way that if there truly has been a resurgence of interest in the state of the mind and culture of graduating students , particularly the abler ones, it could be attributed to a kind of appallment - appallment of the teacher at his own failures; appallment of the student at how little has been expected of him and how little responsibility has been put upon him for his education; appallment of the educated public at the limited and partial carry-over from formal education into everyday, actual life.

An old friend of mine here, Lucy Clifford (W.K.'s widow) who was there at the "high table" and has sent me a catalogue of the guests which I hang over in the appallment of fascination — or the fascination of appallment; and which, as she has just returned and I am to see her tonight, she will fill out with hideous detail — though indeed she appears, by a line she wrote me, to have enjoyed, rather, the weird desolation of it.

Michael Gartner, editor of The Des Moines Register & Tribune, sent him a reproachful note; Gartner was filled with appallment.