Word: snobbish
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...private affair; in another it concerns the college at large. It is plain that the man who refused his accommodations to a student because this student was colored, did so because, in his opinion Harvard men themselves would draw such a distinction. In other words he catered to a snobbish spirit which he thought existed here at college. To outsiders, then, who may hear but one side of the story, the case may give a false idea of the society at Harvard. To do justice to the man who was wronged and to correct any such misunderstanding we feel...
...Harvard's first interest, and it is not snobbish either, is in all branches of athletics to defeat Yale. This is certain to become still more the fact as time goes on and college athletics increase to such an extent that it will be impossible to arrange leagues large enough to settle definitely the "championship,"- a worthless tide at the best. It is not likely that Harvard will ever figure in intercoll grate leagues again; there seems to be a general sentiment again it among both students and the Faculty. But the writer in The Weeks Sport expects...
...repeat, let earnest men,- scholars who have pride in the reputation of the university, and athletic men to whom our success on ball field and river is so dear-unite in showing the world that Harvard at heart is not snobbish, and that we have that which will surely bring victories-enthusiasm...
There is no denying that a certain set of young Americans, more particularly in New York and in Boston, affect the Englishman and ape all his affectations. They mimic every English trick in the most snobbish way. They attempt an English accent, and they sprinkle Briticisms freely through their speech. They talk of their "fads," and they call people "cads," and they abound in the most amusing little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever...
...article being in "bad taste" and "snobbish," these expressions are wholly out of place, and are merely an indication of the bad-tempered manner in which the writer has taken my remarks. My opinions may be wrong, but they certainly were not expressed in a manner to justify such criticism. We now find the following untrue sentence: "The writer compares the character of our rooms with those at Yale and Tufts in a spirit that is as insulting to them as it is disgraceful to himself...