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According to this categorization we are all snobs. There are, it is true, but few of the first type; the second type, however, is legion. Snobbery, after all, is mere inherency. Prejudice, the universal sin, is a species of snobbery. Excessive pride in a hobby--and who does not take pride in one--is another snobbery. Harvard is criticised by outsiders (who often know nothing about it) for being snobbish, and within its exclusive gates men call other men snobs. Irascible X accuses immaculate Y of being a snob and then snubs provincial Z who comes from another and smaller...
...complimentary terms to what he is pleased to regard as "Harvard snobbishness." If there is any single cause of the growing hostility to Harvard, it is in this widespread and perhaps not altogether mistaken belief that a Harvard graduate is another name for a conceited young snob...
...remember I was told before entering college--by a graduate of Brown, I think it was--that no man could go to Harvard and stay there four years without becoming a snob. This man, like Arthur Train, cited the choice maxim, "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him anything," as proof of his allegation. As a neophyte I was considerably impressed by this statement, but managed somehow to reserve my judgment and entered the Freshman class in 1916. In all this time I had heard nothing of the high intellectual standards which prevail...
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...