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...college days. The last suggestion in the editorial appearing in the afore-mentioned CRIMSON that "the Harvard social system is so designed that it repeatedly occasions detrimental resentment among a great many undergraduates," is perhaps the solution of the enigma. The greater part of the middle-west considers Harvard "snobbish and sissy-like", and I did too until after a year's residence here. This hostility is the result of ignorance--ignorance of true conditions. And it is because the representatives of the College are also members and representatives of that secret society which lives in Boston and the suburbs...
...resentment arisen among westerners? The answer seems to be because Harvard has been made unattractive to them. For westerners are absolutely intolerant of Boston's traditional "mental luxury of conservatism" which is more tritely expressed by the word "snobbishness", and the snobbish element must be removed before we can stifle this detrimental hostility. The undergraduate body is not snobbish. Then, let us be sure that we choose representatives of the students who are true representatives! ROBERT S. KELLER '23. March...
...have been a Harvard student for over two years, and have been in touch with student activities in various ways. Harvard is essentially undemocratic, aristocratic, pandering to wealth and the idle rich, fostering snobbishness and class distinction. . . . The members of Harvard's exclusive clubs, in which a Wall Street rating is prerequisite for membership, are so removed from the few common students here that they cannot be reached with a thousand foot pole. . . . It is true Harvard has no Greek letter fraternities, but Harvard has just as snobbish and detrimental club system, whose baneful influence is lessened only...
Much of the ill-feeling toward Harvard by those in the neighborhood of Harvard who have not attended the University, arises out of the assumption that Harvard is reactionary and snobbish--particularly in her athletic sports...
Columbus Day is the most recent member of our family of legal holidays. Curiously enough, though last established, it commemorates the first event in our history. Tomorrow America is returning Columbus' call though she has dwelt in rather snobbish isolation for the last one hundred and forty years. But she is now making the return call with all possible courtesy...