Word: non
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...snobbery toward good yet socially unpolished athletes, which was the burden of the senior class dinner oration. The only fault to be found with that oration is that it did not go far enough and condemn, more specifically than it did, the pretty widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There are many cases of men who "cut," or treat condescendingly, a fellow-student because he wears a seedy coat or is unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with...
...They dictate to their employers, whose business they strive to rule; (b) they have sanctioned violence, and even aided in murder; (c) they persecute non-members; (d) they prevent the employment of capital, cause stagnation of business, and, hence, great loss of wealth; (e) they drive many of their members to crime and dissipation through loss of employment.- F. W. Taussig on south-western strike in Journal of Economics, Jan. 1887; Chicago Tribune, Feb. 13, 1887: Nation, Vol. 42, pp. 338, 401, 402, 418, 440, 441; also Vol. 43, pp., 469, 470; Boston Herald, March 21, 1886; Bradstreet...
...Northam Tower, (the centre of the building) and Jarvis, are used for dormitories. Other sections contain the chapel, library, laboratories and lecture rooms. In the basement is the common, dining-room. Each of the four college societies has a table of its own; there are also neutral tables for non-society men, and others for members of the faculty who live in the building...
...increasing the expense of training; 2d, by increasing the time devoted to practice; 3rd, by reducing the number of active competitors; 4th, by relying upon the natural resources rather than upon cultivated material; 5th, by depriving the non-athletic class of every incentive to physical exertion; 6th, by arousing the spirit of antagonism and fostering viciousness and brutality; 7th, by depriving them of their efficacy as a means to health...
...next business in order was the election of a committee for the arrangement of the election of Class Day officers, one member to be from the Hasty Pudding, one from the Pi Eta, one from the Signet, and one representing the non-society men. Messrs. E. Thayer and F. B. Lund were nominated to represent the Pudding. Mr. Lund was elected. Mr. Page was elected to represent the non-society men. Mr. Sempers from the Signet. Mr. Adams serves on the committee ex-officio. There being no further business the meeting adjourned...