Word: snobbish
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...glad to say that I coincide with the editor's refutation of Mr. Norton's statements. I am also a "son of the young and growing West" and came to Cambridge from Leland Stanford only last month, thoroughly informed of Harvard's aristocratic and even "snobbish" ideas. I was made to realize the fallacy of my information in a very short time...
...half years that I have lived in the Yard, I have failed to discover that the hap-hazard system has justified itself in any very marked degree: for it has in most cases fostered only acquaintances, whereas community of interest gives rise to friendships. There is nothing very snobbish about finding one man more congenial than another; and rooming in the same entry with a man implies a certain degree of intimacy. It is not to a man's credit if at the end of Junior year he ceases to make friends; but he surely has a right by that...
...time has come when "in justice to Harvard" Yale men should drop the inherited prejudices which have existed and should recognize that after all both universities have more or less the same social ideals. Although we do not admit that the Harvard atmosphere has ever been narrow or snobbish, we do think that a healthy wave of democracy and intelligent class loyalty has swept over the University during the last college generation. We have come to realize that a large University has some disadvantages which tend to counteract its many advantages and which can only be overcome by some unusual...
...taken by the outside public as more or less representive of Harvard life. As a matter of fact, it is representative of only "a very little corner" thereof, and represents this corner in a far from attractive light. With the exception of Haydock, all the characters are unmanly, snobbish, morbid or unhappy. That such characters exist in every college class is of course undeniable, but they are, after all, not typical of this University or, let us hope, of any other...
...done by the authorities to make the affair pleasant and profitable and its success or failure is now in the hands of the new comers. They can make it or spoil it as they choose to attend or stay away. The man who purposely stays away is either so snobbish that he won't go or so timid that he's blind, and in either case he's much better outside of such a gathering and outside the college. Every man who is not blind to his opportunity and and who has his welfare at heart will find it well...