Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reality the Washington rule has a much narrower scope than is generally supposed. Washington's reasons for his position were very simple. The country was young and weak and through geographical separation was naturally aloof from European affairs; it needed time for internal growth and development. Now the country is no longer feeble, science has eliminated distance and our general development has been great...
...abolished for such a purely fastidious reason. If the smell of perspiration has been "nauseating" to the few people who happen to stand by when the successful "rusher" presented his crimson rose to "some other fellow's sister," the improved exits will hereafter enable the few to stand aloof, and leave to the many the enjoyment of an institution which they hold dear. The custom is sentimental; the behavior of the gentlemen is just as inelegant about the "Tree" as it is on the football field; but nevertheless should the Corporation put it to a vote of the Seniors...
...enthusiasm shown in Harvard during the campaign, now over, will do much to give the lie to those who assert that college men in general, and Harvard men in particular, hold themselves aloof from politics and have not the welfare of the country at heart-in other words, that they are not loyal. Harvard men have sometimes been called dilletantes, "gentlemen" rather than men deeply interested in their fellow men and in the political and social welfare of the nation...
...active and heterogeneous existence about them. This is a mistaken conception of one's duty. A man should mingle with the crowd. In the busy university life of today there are unlimited opportunities to do good to others. Our attitude, instead of being one of indifference or of holding aloof should be one of solemn hope and participation...
...more identified with the specific life of the great cities in which they are placed. The present name has the disadvantage of suggesting an enterprise coming from without, as if its workers and its supporters did not come from the city itself, and as if it meant to hold aloof in a measure from the district in which it is located...