Word: inferiorated
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...crowded buses and subways. They don't like missing the companionship and excitement of dormitory life. Most of all, the commuters have no great affection for the University and many feel a distinct antagonism to resident students. Eighty percent of the daily travelers believe that they are treated as inferior Harvard men; they don't feel that they are given an even break from the University. They are probably right...
...number of spectators and of sponsors as well interested in any particular undergraduate organization bears no relation to that organization's name. If the entertainment provided is inferior, the prestige of a name is meaningless, and whatever success any organization has is primarily due to its own ability...
...criticizing the performance; (2) that the professional B.S.O. had "too loud" brass, "lax interpretation," "a shaky start," etc; (3) that the student Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra was "top-notch ... of professional calibre" and gave an "electrifying performance"; and (4) that, in one case, a professional performance was judged far inferior to student performance of the same work...
...thought of his conversion as almost entirely an intellectual step ("Since I was going to marry a Catholic, I determined to learn about Catholicism"). He was later able to write about his baptism with sardonic detachment: "The cathedral was a dark place full of inferior statues. I was baptized one foggy afternoon about four o'clock. I couldn't think of any names I particularly wanted, so I kept my old name. I was alone with the fat priest; it was all very quickly and formally done, while someone at a children's service muttered in another...
...cordial attitude toward the rapidly-growing school in New Haven, individual Harvard graduates were apt to be a bit contemptuous of Yale. Peter Thatcher 1704 had a son twice refused for admittance by Harvard, and then wrote a friend that "I might send him to Yale, which takes many inferior scholars." Jacob Eliot 1720, lived near New Haven and once visited a Yale Commencement. It was, he bitterly wrote to a friend. "Dull, dull, dull...