Word: smacked
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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However much the name of "university" may be abused by being tacked on to so many institutions which smack more of the high school than the college, to such an extent indeed that the word "university" has fallen in part into ridicule, it cannot be denied that some of the seats of learning on this side of the ocean have as good a right to the title as their compeers across the sea. The progress of university life in all the larger colleges within the past decade has been striking, the broadening of the narrow views on educational affairs...
...surest test of progress and enlightened ideas, and in this respect West Point should be awarded the palm. These gentlemen in their report have passed some overt but severe criticisms upon our colleges, some of which are no doubt very just, but others it must be said smack strongly of that military arrogance and self-sufficiency for which West Point has always been notorious. "They are thoroughly convinced," they say, "that the methods of instruction and the thoroughness of the teaching of the various parts of the curriculum of the military academy are not equalled, certainly not excelled...
...large number of men from witnessing the games on account of inability to pay the price of admission. To the minds of some the matter appears in its mercenary aspect, and it is feared that the erection of a fence for the purpose of increasing the gate receipts will smack of professionalism. Still another class look at the question from an aesthetic point of view, and in the eyes of these the unsightly appearance of the fence is its chief fault. It is believed, also, that the erection of a fence will create opposition to the athletic interests...
...Just a smack of positivism...
...mean this as a compliment), and is really a treat after wading through the Oberlin Review with its six-page criticisms on "Self-Culture," and its other discouraging articles. "Romance of the Rose,' though not a new idea, is very prettily written. "The Big Creamy Bowl" and "Grand Reception" smack a little of boarding school...