Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...their respective parties. So the undergraduate need not feel that he is conspicuously different from others, if he makes an effort to be politically well informed. In fact the best educated citizens pride themselves on their knowledge of current politics. The feeling that a real gentleman should hold himself aloof from the vulgar activities of politics has disappeared long...
...here, if the writer is not mistaken, that the most sacred of the old Harvard songs, revered alike for its antiquity and its associations, is sung and played only upon most solemn occasions or at moments of deepest feeling. We have a notion that by maintaining our hymn aloof from freer and coarser use, we render it cleaner and pleasanter as a remainder of the more inspiring aspects of University life...
...with the organization of the Pierian Sodality in 1808, and was continued by the admission of the study of music to the University curriculum. The founders recognized such a need in 1912 when they conceived their initial policy. To quote from the first issue: "A magazine which holds itself aloof from all trade connections, which does not aim to supplement the work of music teachers, and which can bring to a large number such lofty musical ideals as Harvard advocates, is virtually lacking. It is as such a paper that we hope to prove our worth." Evidently the magazine...
...going on in thousands of homes to earn a sufficiency for existence, it should teach them to appreciate the view-point, of the other side, to see how easy and yet how unjust it is for the one who inherits money but has never earned a cent to hold aloof and criticize; it should make them realize that it is just to levy taxes on inheritances...
...reason for the somber, unprofitable atmosphere of the lecture room lies in the fact that there is no "give and take" between the minds of professor and students. The former occupies an aloof, oracular position, delivering himself to a non-receptive audience of the ideas he has worked out alone or the facts he has collected. The latter listen without enthusiasm and dully set down in notes what they think they hear. In those cases where the lecturer, through his personality or power of popularizing, arouses unusual interest, a theatrical burst of applause betrays the peculiar attitude engendered...