Word: conceit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...when a man finds himself ranked with a class, he naturally looks to see who his companions are. If he thinks he is quite as good a scholar as they are he is rather dissatisfied. It is, moreover, obvious that if the majority are dissatisfied somebody must be conceited, and also that the conceit of the college is greater than its modesty by the majority of the dissatisfied over the satisfied men; and vice versa. Modesty is an excellent virtue and easy to assume "If you have it not." The heartiest support may therefore be expected for the system...
...They desire to excel in what they attempt, a natural and honorable ambition. But they see on every hand scores of men abler than they in the very direction in which they thought themselves especially strong. There comes a feeling of discouragement, and a shock to one's self-conceit. This is the experience of most students in the first years of their college course. Then follows, in the majority of cases, a wholesome belief in one's abilities. There are some, however, who never recover from the first rude awakening from their dreams of their brilliant possibilities. Because they...
...epics and other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems of the triolet and rondeau order, in fact every sort of "bright conceit in meter," if the Record will pardon our plagiarism. Whether all this is real progress or only growing frivolity is out of our line of enquiry. It is an interesting fact that in many respects our southern exchanges are in the earlier stages just mentioned. Here is the last issue...
...that we believe our Harvard readers would like to see. It cannot be said that Harvard men are men of no opinions, but it can be said, with no little justice perhaps, that Harvard men are not as ready to express opinions as they should be. It is no conceit for us to say that the CRIMSON is one of the best means now existing by which college opinion may be expressed, and we would gladly see the paper become more a paper of college sentiment than it has been in the past. We have always been glad to publish...
...every way. Of all these things, it is to be hoped they will not be disappointed, that in a certain degree we believe they will not. But at the end there are two things of importance to be avoided, the danger of self-satisfaction, that is, of conceit for too much wisdom, and the danger of losing by neglect all that has actually been gained. The former danger is, the writer believes, the lesser. Four years at a college of any spirit at all are quite likely to take a large portion of a man's conceit...