Word: oberlin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There are snobs at Harvard and snobs at Yale, Oberlin, and Leland Stanford." (And in Mr. Train's hurried trip across the continent we might have suggested another station or two.) As a general thing he said he regarded the alleged trait of his fair alma mater as simply "Harvard indifference," and we rush to be as universal as he and say that it is also Yale, Oberlin, and Leland Stanford indifference, and to further argue that a lot of so-called snobbishness is nothing more than bashfulness...
...Toyokichi Iyenaga, the other speaker of the evening, is a Japanese by birth but came to America early in his life and has received degrees from both Oberlin and Johns Hopkins. After his education in the United States he returned to Japan and there became a professor in Wasada University and in the Higher Commercial Colleges of Tokio. In 1895 he was appointed secretary for the Department of Foreign Affairs, and in 1898 he became a commissioner of the Formesan government to India, Persia, Turkey, and China...
There are snobs at Harvard and snobs at Yale, Oberlin and Lealand Stanford. There are prigs everywhere. The young gentleman in my story--"That sort of Woman"--which you have apparently done me the compliment to read--"Payson Clifford, Jr."--was a Harvard prig, but in the end, all his underlying good qualities, you will have observed, came to the top and he proved to be a regular fellow after all. He is not generic but he is--isn't he?--not exactly uncommon. Let us be honest. "Harvard Indifference" is at once the virtue upon which we pride ourselves...
There are snobs at Harvard and snobs at Yale, Oberlin and Lealand Stanford. There are prigs everywhere. The young gentleman in my story--"That sort of Woman"--which you have apparently done me the compliment to read--"Payson Clifford, Jr."--was a Harvard prig, but in the end, all his underlying good qualities, you will have observed, came to the top and he proved to be a regular fellow after all. He is not generic but he is--isn't he?--not exactly uncommon. Let us be honest. "Harvard Indifference" is at once the virtue upon which we pride ourselves...
...organizations engaged in presenting for discussion current topics not treated in the college courses, the only two which seemed to have escaped the active criticism of faculty and students were the Student Liberal Clubs of Oberlin and of the University. Yet these clubs and others like them feel the need for a central organization which should aid in the task of securing speakers and circulate information concerning the activities of similar clubs in other colleges. In this way the value of the individual clubs to its members, to the college and to the community at large could be considerably enhanced...