Word: aristocratism
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...standards by the ablest men, rather than by the mediocre. It is true that American schools are inclusive: Harvard is frankly exclusive and selective, though not always happily so. Perhaps that is why we sometimes get the "snob" instead of the man we want; the true aristocrat. It is a word we shudder at these days; and yet, did not the Cambridge group of poets and thinkers form a genuinely creative aristocracy, functioning at a time when the rest of America was quite barren of thought...
...professors are always called unapproachable, and the undergraduates of the University are branded more or less delicately as "snobs," the proof of their snobbery being sown thick with mention of Gold Coasts, clubs and other evil inventions. It is somewhat of a question whether a man is an aristocrat even if he puts no virtuous boycott on Mt. Auburn street dormitories, and is social enough to like to meet his friends in a social organization...
...production, "Zwel Wappen," in Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The play is by two popular German playwrights, Blumenthal and Kadelburg, and has had very successful runs both in Germany and in this country. The plot of the farce centers about two national types, the antiquated German aristocrat and the self-made American business...
...most successful modern German playwrights. "Zwei Wappen" had a very popular run in Germany, where it was first presented a few years ago, and recently it was played with marked success in New York. The plot turns upon the contrast of two national types, the antiquated German aristocrat and the self-made American business man. The former type is cleverly depicted in the character of Freiher von Wettingen, a German nobleman who is stubbornly opposed to his son's attentions to the charming daughter of the latter, a Chicago packer...
...with him; his judgment is warped either by a false attitude of heart or else a pecuniary interest. In the first case, the thing to do is to ascertain the man's point of view. All men, said Jefferson, are divided into two natural parties; the democratic and the aristocratic. The former believes that society is built upon a firm foundation, the latter that it is suspended from the top. The democrat believes that if the condition of the common people is improved, society will be better; the aristocrat that, if you look after the well-to-do, some...