Word: snobbish
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...high school graduate already interested in Lawrence. As a result, Lawrence is free from athletic subsidization, but also from a diversity of student backgrounds. What one professor calls the "country club back-ground" of the overage Lawrentian, however, refers only to his father's income, not to a snobbish attitude on the campus. Lawrence instead prides itself on friendliness. "Sure, we know just about everybody on the campus," one fraternity member said, "and if we don't, we say hello anyway...
...high school graduate already interested in Lawrence. As a result, Lawrence is free from athletic subsidization, but also from a diversity of student backgrounds. What one professor calls the "country club background" of the overage Lawrentian, however, refers only to his father's income, not to a snobbish attitude on the campus. Lawrence instead prides itself on friendliness. "Sure, we know just about everybody on the campus," one fraternity members said, "and if we don't, we say hello anyway...
Prokofiev's aristocrats were snobbish, idle, worthless people; his masses were the salt of the earth. Officially, the Communists did not attend, but the Communist press turned handsprings in praise of Prokofiev's work and its ideological message. Some critics, obviously unfamiliar with Leo Tolstoy's monumental novel, had trouble following the plot, and small wonder: about the only original characters who came through were Pierre, the high-born hero who learned to love the Russian people through suffering with them, and Natasha, the simple girl who returned to her first love when...
...Table has long aroused college men both pro and con. The sight of a group of tuxedoed men eating better food on a raised platform has stirred the democratic ire, of many a student. The Table's opponents claim that it is a snobbish piece of showiness, while its defenders say that it is a good way of bringing together the House staff and undergraduates...
Reaction to the decision was immediate. The press was quick to point out that recently the HGC had not been winning the championships--in fact, it had finished seventh the previous year. One Boston paper attributed the withdrawal to "snobbish superiority." Calling the move "poor sportsmanship" the Harvard Club of Kansas City urged Davison to reenter next year...