Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate publication, "The Aristocrat," has quietly arrived in our midst; an unassuming and sedate four-page weekly, without illustrations, without any militant purpose, without any of the flavor of ordinary undergraduate life, without any likeness to the other college magazines. "The "Aristocrat" announces that "not with the eye of philosopher or critic, avoiding the quip and lesson of reformer, standing aside from bustle," it treads "the ways of antiquity," and it offers the modest hope that it may "calm the undergraduate mania for achievement with a leaven of whimsical humor...
...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...