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...course, they're used to that kind of prejudice, which is as old as the beginning of the college. First there was Harvardian scorn of the facultyless, unendowed school, but the idea that has stuck longest is the continual refusal of Harvard students to admit that a Radcliffe girl is really feminine. The idea seems mainly to rise from the fact that the girls sometimes wear glasses, often wear saddle shoes, and are usually in earnest. Perhaps Radcliffe has more than its share of seriously interested students; it was founded for the sole purpose of giving women a Harvard education...
Back in the '80's some indifferent Yardster referred idly to the growing institution on Garden Street as the "Harvard Annex," and that name stuck for years, faintly indicative of the vague scorn with which undergraduates looked on their feminine associates. Somehow Radcliffe never started; it just grew. One day in 1879 there were some girls getting instructed by Harvard teachers. After a while they were a college, and now that college is Radcliffe, and puts on plays with the HDC. In the intervening years poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women...
Author Rich has crammed her book with observations on cooking, dressing, neighborliness, forest fires, fishing, customs, communications. But she has no scorn for city dwellers: "In spite of the literary convention of bursting barns, overflowing larders, and cellars crammed with luscious preserves and delicious smoked hams, in spite of the accepted version of the countryman as being clad in the warmest and best of wools . . . the country standard of living is very much lower than the city standard...
...letter sent to protesting students; curt, concise Timeditors explained the misstatement by quoting an Associated Press report of the move. The Lucesleuths felt the full fury of Cantabridgian scorn, complaining that their mail has swollen with exclamations of the unfortunate absence of any such luxury...
Stanch, dignified old War Secretary Henry Stimson had only scorn for enthusiasts of dirty commando tactics. At Randolph Field, Tex. last week he warned cadets: "You must go into battle to fight with the skill and courage of the Axis, but not with their cruelty and brutality. When you go into battle you will be equipped with the finest material an enlightened government can provide. But in addition to this, you must be brave, and as representatives of a free republic you will have an indefinable something that your enemies don't have and never will possess...