Word: means
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...trouble at the bottom of this matter is, that some persons are possessed with the idea that there is no mean between officious independence and toadyism. This fact "G. E." has avoided. He merely says that popularity is the result of insincerity. If he will take the pains to look through college, he will find that the really popular men are those who maintain a manly independence, but do not let their tongues run away with them...
...surprise me, Mr. H.; what do you mean by enough...
...independent" man who does all this would be a cross between a boor and a fool. When "Ossip" shows the necessary connection between independence and such actions he certainly will show how unsatisfactory a thing independence is; but in the mean while the old prejudice in favor of it will remain...
...thing, and attractive from its novelty, but I tell you a feeling is rising against it. Your cousin Ned writes from Exeter that most of his class and of the class below him are going to Yale. That is a new step for Exeter, and what does it mean? Why, that the parents are growing suspicious of Harvard's present system, and prefer to send their boys somewhere else. Now, if this is the case...
...think the cause of such a man's unpopularity is his disregard of the fact that there is a mean between servility and self-assertion. It is a tendency common in young men to take extremes. They seem to feel, in spite of the auream mediocritatem of Horace (who, by the by, knew more about the world than they do), that their sense of right will not admit of their pursuing any course that lies between obsequiousness and arrogance. I recognize as plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would...