Word: cliquishness
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...quadrangle will be associated with the Woodrow Wilson Society, which will provide dining, social and study facilities for quad residents. The Wilson Society was set up in 1957 as the University's first alternative to the clubs. It has been criticized, however, for being just as ingrown and cliquish as Prospect St. About 40 sophomores join every year...
...that Harvard is in the difficult position of having to promote integration and afford students as much liberty as possible at the same time. The problem was illustrated last year, Epps says, when a number of Freshman Negroes were told by their proctor that they shouldn't be so cliquish and sit at the same table at the Freshman Union. It is in precisely this kind of situation, Epps contends, that students must be left alone...
Chancellor Branscomb took over in 1946. He put in nine years of dealing with the cliquish, 44-man board, and then persuaded Harold S. ("Mike'') Vanderbilt to accept the presidency and lead the school back to the role that his great-grandfather had charted for it-strengthener of ties "between all sections of our common country." Sportsman and Financier Vanderbilt was the first of his family to serve on the board, and he took the job seriously; in private airplanes, he flies into Nashville once a month from homes in New York, Palm Beach and Virginia, works...
...Hunter's profession was largely a slit-or-miss affair. Anesthesia was virtually unknown; patients scarcely drugged by doses of laudanum or brandy expected only death from the agony of the knife. Untrained midwives often ripped babies' heads from shoulders in the course of arduous labor. The cliquish Corporation of Surgeons had a near monopoly on cadavers for dissection; private anatomy teachers were forced to traffic with the "sack-'em-up men"-the body snatchers...
...from humor to bitterness. "Will be formed when Napoleon is appointed Master," wrote one wag. "You meet happy people on the MTA," another improvised. "Ridiculous and hollow," "frightening artificiality," and "a rationalization for dissatisfied commuters"--these were other reactions, together with "Pleasant in many ways, but causes a provincial, cliquish atmosphere," and "Definitely true--too much, perhaps makes us clannish." This sentiment was echoed in other parts of the poll...