Word: snob
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Senator Hollis '92, if the Boston newspapers quote him correctly, which, in the experience of the CRIMSON is problematical, has come out with the frank confession that Harvard made a snob of him; not a half-way snob, either; not a second class or steerage snob, but, to use the words attributed to the Senator, "a first class snob...
Criticism, however exaggerated, is welcome. It makes men ask, "Is the critic right?" The CRIMSON can hardly dispute Senator Hollis's own testimony that he is a snob for he probably knows best, but it can question the conclusion that some might draw, that the Senator's case is typical and that Harvard makes all men "first class snobs...
...during his four years here. Surely he also acquired the ability to think for himself. His utterances in the Union last year and at Lynn Thursday prove that. The Senator isn't really as terrible a fellow as he says he is. He is a rather valuable sort of snob...
...snob. He did not want to know men so that in the future when they had made a success he could say, "Oh yes; I know him; he was in my class." He wanted to know men because of their worth; because their friendship might be an inspiration and help to him in College and out of it. But he only knows a limited circle--those in his club, a few who have lived near him and borrowed his books, a few men he has met casually during his four years. But most of his class is completely foreign...
...stories. "They don't end as they ought to, or, perhaps better, as do those I am accustomed to read," says the Victorian. "Yours is very definite, very cleverly told, Mr. Burlingame, but why deal with the exceptional Boston John, especially if he is a snob and a cad, when there are so many Johns of Boston who are straight and clean and brave? The gentleman of the first person, as well as he of the third, whom Mr. Barlow conducts through a Parisian evening in a study of the contrast between Basque impetuosity and English simplicity, pay a very...