Word: condescends
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...young writers to be ambitious to consider subjects which lie outside of their little life experiences, and to which they can at best impart but a supperficial atmosphere? To be concrete, college literature tends to be too ambitious. If the undergradate aspirant would narrow his point of view and condescend to smaller subjects which form a part of his everyday life, and to which if he only knew it he could do justice, not only would the standard in that line of work be raised, but college literature would, so to speak, take off its disguise and appear...
...condescend too far. We will waste no more words in giving the lie to the dirtiest bit of journalistic writing which it has been our misfortune to see in connection with the name of Harvard...