Word: snobbishness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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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...
...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...