Word: hifalutin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hope, that American secondary education will purge itself of this hifalutin nonsense, and get back to essentials is to indulge in an optimism entirely unwarranted by its past performance. To hope, however, that it may be forced to undertake at least a partial reformation if the colleges raise a sufficiently loud clamor, and in the case of the Eastern colleges which can afford to do so, apply some real pressure, is not too sanguine an expectation. Harvard, for many years the great innovator of the college world, should take the lead in guiding or forcing the secondary schools...