Word: aloofness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University does not approve blind or pyrotechnic patriotism. It has stead-fastly sought to avoid jingoism and acts of hostility and unfairness of any sort to any of the warring nations. But it does not propose to hold aloof when the dignity and honor of its country require its support and its service...
...dormitory dining rooms, and for that reason are divided into three groups, there will be no such restriction or division at the Freshman banquet in the Union tonight. Smith can eat with Gore and Standish can join the party. Every Freshman should attend. Friendships cannot be made by holding aloof from the gatherings of one's class, and men should learn this in their first year...
From time to time, the accusation has been leveled against the college man that he has either shown a tendency to stand aloof from politics, or, what is worse, assume an attitude of bored indifference...
...coming to Harvard, he left behind not only customs and methods to which he had adapted himself, but what is essentially more important--friends. It is, therefore, to be expected that the majority of unclassified students, feeling themselves in a strange environment and without class affiliations, should stand aloof from all College activities on the grounds that they will enter into them after they become better acquainted and receive some definite class standing...
...support of a great many undergraduates. It is one of the pleasing signs of the times that the movement for the formation of this society has come from the undergraduates themselves and represents their interest in matters intellectual. It is a sign, too, that the student does not stand aloof, a privileged and disinterested member of society, but shows he is vitally interested in the problems and difficulties of the world...