Word: snobbish
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...Spectator also took offense at the CRIMSON article. The newsapper stated editorially, "The report abounds with snobbish depreciations of Columbia University. . . We wish to petition Harvard not to expel us from the Ivy League...
...president, said that "each girl decorates her room as she would decorate her room at home," most turn to the collegiate effect, with emphasis on banners and crimson cushions and a notable lack of frilly stuff. Even the few possible varieties of decoration, however, call up the normal feminine snobbish between tastes. "I just loathe chintz bedspreads...
...feathers and reddish-brown head spots, it is one of the most beautiful of birds. In flight, its wingspread is seven feet; on the ground, it walks haughtily through marshes in search of frogs and snakes, or performs its pre-mating dance with rapid grace. It is an aloof, snobbish aristocrat which sticks with its own family, fights off other cranes who come to poach on its hunting grounds...
Housemaster Ronald M. Ferry '12 would welcome intellectuals, for the House had no one among last year's Junior Eight nor this fall's Senior Sixteen in Phi Beta Kappa. Members of the House are divided as to the tutorial staff--some complain that the tutors are snobbish and aloof, while others find them provocative conversationalists...
Another year slips by, and the Pentagonal Hockey League continues on its solitary, snobbish way. Boston College, Boston University, and Northeastern are good enough to play, it seems, but they are hardly on the same social plane...