Word: highbrow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...grouped together on a single platform, such grotesque combinations as a Russian anti-Czarist who had learned in his youth to respect Lenine and an Irish agitator or agitatress; a Western I. W. W. angered because of the treatment of his leaders in our courts and an eastern highbrow who had detected an inconsistency in the government's policy; a former editor of a German paper who could see no wrong in the Lusitania affair and a religious pacifist who would not take another life to protect...
Professor Johnston once remarked in a history course that ours was the only country since the Roman Empire in which the possession of intellect was considered a reproach. He alluded, of course, to the sneer which always accompanies the word "highbrow". It is a condition which should cause us serious reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England...