Word: hauteur
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...Harvard will not be marred by the expression of any feeling less creditable than honorable emulation. The students of Yale must certainly see, as do we, that the true interests of Harvard and Yale are identical, that our traditions are similar, and our sympathies common. Any feeling of hauteur or superiority with which Harvard undergraduates may have regarded Yale at the founding of that institution has certainly perished in the lapse of time. Any such feeling should certainly now vanish before Yale's fair escutcheon, blazoned, as they justly remark, with the noble achievements of one hundred and seventy years...