Word: conceitedly
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...things Mr. Thayer deplores in the journalism of today-journalistic conceit, and irresponsibility as to the truth of published reports. His advice to those who intend to enter the profession is to pay particular attention to Political Economy, History, and modern literature while in college, and after entering a newspaper office to expect neither large pay nor speedy advancement, but to be content to work up slowly...
...well-turned translation of Heine's lovely poem. "The Morality of Tom Jones" makes one or two good points but is not very much of a literary production. Considerable skill is shown in the treatment of a sketch entitled "The Streets of Boston." "Banished" is a bright, humorous conceit. Of the two papers on Milton and on Goethe, the latter is decidedly the stronger. They are both treated in a rather cursory way and the ideas embodied in both essays would not suffer from greater elaboration. The best bit of writing in this issue is undoubtedly a sketch, "Mr. Blanc...
...courtesy and quiet merit won for him the respect of all, the sincerest regard of those who knew him intimately. His success in the athletic field has upheld the honor of his college on more than one occasion, but neither victory nor defeat changed his even, pleasant manner through conceit or discouragement. He was an earnest, conscientious worker, full of energy and decision. His memory will live long in the heart of his friends, for to them his place will never be filled...
...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...