Word: conceit
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Mayor Whitlock of Toledo was then introduced by President Eliot to speak on "Citizenship." No man should commit himself irrevocably to any political party; organization in politics is necessary, to be sure, and no one should keep aloof from them out of conceit; but every voter should be master of himself and decide for himself. What counts is development of character; if we look to this, we shall help in that movement of the people which is the most inspiring on earth today...
...favorable conditions. In closing, Dean Fenn referred to four types of students,--one whose ideals are too high to be agreeable to those with whom he associates; another who feels that his poverty prevents intimate friendship with his fellows; the modesty of a third leads him to a false conceit; the last comes to college expecting to be snubbed and in so doing he creates the very condition which he deplores. To remedy these conditions a student must remember that he is a Harvard man among Harvard men, and that the friendship that is extended will have friendship returned...
...experiments in verse "Destiny" by H. T. Pulsifer shows perhaps the most promise. The conclusion, however, even while having a good conceit, is sustained only by a rather obvious invoking of the Deity. The remaining two contributions are in the nature of vers de societe, and verse of this sort except when exquisitely done always means so much more to the writer than to the reader that criticism is unprofitable...
...latter and finds how little profit there is in winning the whole world and losing his own soul. The story is well told. In "Song," C.E.H. prays to taste of pain, of hate, and sin, that he may know what lies beyond. In "Spring Snows," W.C.G. has a pretty conceit; "Should our spring become a winter's day again, can we not build a dream-spring lasting through the years...
...dithyramb, and rises at moments to dithyrambic unintelligibility, as in the first line, "Land that the lakes have brided." The lingling anapests of "Morituri Salutamus" seem fitter to "Here's a health to King Charles" than to the bleeding and tearful gladiator. "Jealousy" is an aptly turned conceit in four lines; and "Will of the Wisp" has a good second stanza...