Word: aping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...body. For this reason alone this departure from long usage would be inadvisable. All the distinction which is necessary between members of the graduation class and those of the lower classes, is made by the dress suit. Any further distinction is superfluous. We cannot yet see why Harvard should ape the manners and customs of Cambridge or Oxford, especially as we consider our American ways fully equal to any which may be imported...
...trust that this omniscient writer himself is not one of these unfortunate high rank men who "almost invariably shun very valuable courses"! This would-be critic is at present unknown, but it is a pity that there should be even one man among us who thinks that he must ape the habits of men more wealthy than himself. Such a man is not likely to be popular among the hundreds of other men who have not discovered, as yet, this "uncongenial aristocratic, and moneyed atmosphere," which is noticed by this unfortunate writer. But to come to the most serious part...
...springs, walking with arms, etc. Mr. Knapp's spider walk occasioned long and continued laughter and applause. The race between Messrs. Bachelder and Knapp and Dudley and Faulkner in the double somersault art was won by Dudley and Faulkner. This event was the clown of the afternoon, and the ape-like movements of the contestants elicited long and uproarious applause. In this event Dudley won the first prize and Knapp the second...
...communication of the self-styled, thoroughly American student, merits a reply through your columns. "The anglomaniac tendencies in American Universities" that have shown themselves "in peculiar dress and in strangely distorted pronunciation," in my opinion richly deserve condemnation. A man may not be less patriotic when he elects to ape our English cousins in dress and mode of speech, though he certainly puts himself in the ranks of those who would introduce a ridiculed but yet dangerous element in our society life. He is unpatriotic when he voices the sentiment that "Americans have grown wise and prosperous by adopting...
...excuse? Does he ever think of worth and virtue? We think not. As we conceive him, he is a man who follows English customs, solely because they are English, not because they are in any particular way good. For him we know no better name than "The Englishman's Ape." This apeing English ways was what we protested against in a former editorial; our protest was against Anglomania as being nothing but apeing. Indeed we are doubtful if any higher and more complimentary meaning can be given to the word...