Word: conceitedness
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A Yale man was heard to say just after the game last week: "We've got to beat Harvard at something; we'll beat them in swimming, we'll beat them in wrestling, and we'll beat them in the gym meet. Those Harvard men are too conceited to take...
The story is of a pretty young girl, Elsie Dover, who inherits her mother's, romance and her father's inventive powers. In order to escape the advances of the conceited Sam Robinson she invents a romance with Billy Ballard, at the house of whose mother she does sewing. Disturbed...
"Erasmus Montanus" is a much older play than the other, and as such is de- pendent for its effect largely upon a vivid portrayal of character. Erasmus, the principal character, is a young man who has been educated out of his station, and returned, priggish and conceited to his humble...
Yet in the midst of all their glory we must give a few words of advice. In past a University team could trample upon one eleven after another without becoming in the least conceited,--not so with the Freshmen. There is a danger when one of the yearling teams has...
I should like to ask, forgetting for a moment the false rhetoric and almost inconceivable bad taste of the latter, which of the two displayed more activity, ardor and self-sacrifice and supported with greater ability the greater cause--the subject of the above account or the writer of the...