Word: resentment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Association. He is unpopular in the Senate. On first entering that body he made a bad start by delivering a maiden speech, introducing himself, which struck many a listener as highly egotistical. He addresses the Senate in the same professorial manner he used toward his students at Yale. Senators resent being lectured and most of his speeches are lectures. After a trip to the Philippines he told Senators all about the islands as if they had never heard of them. Many a Senator voted to censure him for the Eyanson affair because of a longstanding irritation with what they considered...
...generally admitted that the reform is excellent in theory; criticism questions only its practicability. Doubt of its success rests mainly on the promise that "American students resent being told with whom they shall eat and sleep." This is undoubtedly true with regard to very small groups, but it is not applicable to societies of two hundred odd members. At Princeton the majority are content with liberty of choice in regard to a room-mate; they raise no formidable insurrections over arbitrary allotment to dormitories and Commons, or over a system of club elections by which their table companions are determined...
...common with many others who feel that Princeton and her traditions are quite good enough for the average American citizen, and who resent the patronizing airs which these hybrid academics give themselves. I desire to protest against the absurd reverence which seems to be accorded to a man who has spent two or three years mooning among the dons and returns graciously to accept the offer of an instructorship at his alma mater for the purpose of impressing her loutish sons with his own esotericism and converting them from their boorishness...
...keenest resentment felt by the CRIMSON, it seems, was to the informal tone of the letter. It may have been a mistake to address in this way a Harvard undergraduate, jealous of his natural right to flunk out of college. He immediately suspects that there is a hidden significance--to be dreaded--as the CRIMSON has shown. Perhaps Professor Coolidge would have done better to make the letter coldly formal. That the CRIMSON took the attitude it did is an indication of the way any attempt to promote informality between the student body and the faculty, in the Houses...
...obvious to the survey engineers that the lanes of parked cars along the curb were a serious obstruction to all traffic movement. But there is no more delicate question in the whole traffic problem than parking. Merchants look on the parked car as a source of much business. Motorists resent any attempt to curtail parking as an abrogation of personal privilege...