Word: snobbishness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...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...