Word: snobbishness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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...
...given me to write them; and I sincerely hope that you have not found them utterly worthless. One or two friends who have looked over my shoulder while I have been writing have found great fault with me, and have called me worldly and cynical and snobbish. They may be right. Perhaps I am. But I do not think that I am a bad fellow at heart; and I do not think that my letters are bad at heart either. If you have read them as I wrote them, if you have taken satire for satire and seriousness for seriousness...
...those who have no hope of getting in. But at the same time it undoubtedly exists, and exercises an influence which is none the less for being unseen. And the more you have of it, the better for you it will be. I find that I am becoming horribly snobbish, so I shall hasten to close my letter. Always behave like a gentleman. If you want to do an impudent thing, do it in such a way that nobody will know that it is impudent till he stops to think; and if you can't do it in that...
...They clothe, however, a spirit in the mouth of which a sneer at democracy was most appropriate. It is no mild imputation on gentlemen who are Harvard students, to call them "outside barbarians," and speak of them as men "to whom society is but a name." It bespeaks a snobbish arrogance which should be an anomaly in this country. We thank it for taking on itself the name of oligarchy...
...then further our amicable relations by all the means in our power, and set an example to those colleges that are yet struggling in outer darkness. If Yale men regard us as a trifle snobbish, a shade supercilious, a jot too conscientious, a tittle quixotic, and ever so little conscious of our own superiority, - let us beg them to bear with us. Although our language be strangely fastidious, - our personal appearance impertinently neat, we do not, surely, mean to be insulting; and it is not without reason that we are encouraged to hope that our Yale friends will endeavor...