Word: hottentot
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...prayers of worried communicators and the ponderous projects of editorial writers are vain; the Union has found a brief solution of her problems without them. For one night she is happy. This evening she puts aside the ignominious role of "Mem., Jr.," banishes the tribe of Hottentot maidens that serve her board, and receives in queenly state a fulfildged Junior Class...
...temperament of nations, and to the advancement of civilization. To the poor an automobile is a luxury; to the business man or statesman it is a necessity. Fur coats are indispensable in Norway while they are far from necessary in the more temperate regions of the earth. A Hottentot considers the necessaries of civilization the height of luxury. When interpreted in this light there are few things of daily life which do not in some way answer important needs of society...
...instructive to note the air with which the lecture room greets the remarks of the French officers. If the orals are a test of the average college man's ability as a linguist, French should be as intelligible to him as Hottentot to an Eskimo. Yet we hear the voluminous applause of six hundred men at the proper dramatic pause, and the right ripple or broad guffaw of as many at the humorous interlude. It may be that a few, habituated to the Gallic tongue, lead the applause, and the rest follow to show that they also...
They declare that young people "trained in this manner would be as destitute of culture as a Hottentot." In Dr. Flexner's scheme, one of the four fields of instruction is called aesthetics, and under this head comes the study of painting, sculpture, literature, and music. His plan is to give young people the power of appreciating art in its many forms and allow the creative ability to follow or develop naturally. The cultural side of this new plan is not wholly neglected, but approached by the single path of appreciation...