Word: aristocratism
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Small wonder that the Ministry of Agriculture is alarmed. Here is a peasant aristocrat, overturing at one blow all pretensions of such upstart houses as Bourbons, Hapsburgs, Hohenzollerns, and Plantagenets to antiquity. Renan's famous remark that if the rights of ownership were religiously observed, Alsace-Lorraine would belong to the aboriginal apes, is nearly true to a lesser degree in this French farmer with his nine hundred year old ancestry. As far as, claims to aristocracy are concerned the line of this peasant proprietor going back over three hundred years before the rhyme...
...Club in the city a week later at the dedication of the new sailors' gymnasium. Half of the cast was composed of English members of the Hissar Players. The high artistic excellence of the performances was largely due to Dr. Watson who, besides taking the part of the English aristocrat, Lord Loani, coached and directed the play...
...Oxford there is not evident the athletic aristocrat who is so conspicuous in American institutions, for athletics are not monopolized by a small number of men, trained by high-salaried and specialized coaches, nor do the men appear before such a large number of students. Athletic success does not determine a man's position as much as here...
Another "Harvard Weekly" yesterday made its appearance on the Square. In opposition to its forerunner, "The Aristocrat", whose first issue came out on April 4, the new paper is entitled "The Proletarian...
...should like to avail myself of your columns for a few remarks on the new sheet, The Aristocrat. First of all let me suggest a more fitting motto: There is no god but classicism and Irving Babbitt is its prophet. For the editors might at least have been gracious enough to acknowledge those statements more obviously taken over from Professor Babbitt's writings and lectures...