Word: sniff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would not seem to sniff at political earnestness on the part of Harvard men. Let duty to our country is but one of the duties (perhaps the highest individual one) taught us by our Alma Mater; Mind, it is duty to our country not to the Democratic or Republican parties. Every man has ample opportunity to join oue or the other of the great political parties either in Cambridge or in Boston. It is a matter of individual judgment alone to which one he gives his adherence. They both claim the same high ideals. But Harvard College stands for something...
...week for room and $6.00 a week for table-board apiece, making $17.00 a week, outside of all other expenses. . . . A son of Greek-Grammar Hadley is our professor in German, and a son of Geologist Dana in physic. All those famous men - Loomis, Dana, Sr., Whitney, etc., - never sniff at a class lower than the senior. They serve as elegant figureheads to give the college a 'rep.' However, you must not give me away in this, as the professors are reverenced here." - [Michigan Argonaut...