Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...does not lack interest. "Topics of the Day" is a new departure in the Advocate. It is not to appear in every number; but it is to be devoted to live subjects of discussion among the students. The department in the present number is filled by a soliloquy about snobs as seen from a snob's point of view. There is a deep truth in what is said, and we do not remember ever having seen it expressed so forcibly as it is here...
...winter amusements is photographing Snodkin's rooms, the ones that we have heard so much about lately. They are easy to take and are so varied that they cannot become tiresome. All the signs can be read in the photograph as clearly as in the original, and snob. is forever sending the pictures to his fair friends, who wonder what on earth the sign of "Boarders Wanted," "Hair cut and shave, 50 ets.," or "Reserved for Ladies," can mean. I will say nothing about the uses of a camera during the summer, they are too obvious to mention...
...more splendid and useful than any other predecessors or contemporaries. I have heard complaints from within and without that its rules were too strict and exclusive. But I do not hesitate to say that I hope they will never be modified. And this, not be cause I am a snob, but because I appreciate more and more every day the practical value of a liberal education, and because the University Club stands before the community as a continual reminder that some other door must remain closed to those who have not acquired such an education. [Applause.] Said a rich...
...London correspondent of the New York Times thus moralizes; "There is no greater snob than your university snob, no more outrageous cad than your cad who has worn an academic gown. This admitted, comes the concession that your university gentleman is a noble type of courtesy and good manners, and thus the debtor side of the ledger is pretty well balanced. There was a time when "rank and birth" held possession of the colleges. Now "shoddy" and "finance" are represented there, and somehow they assume the by-gone airs of the old aristocrats...
...wish," he remarked, "that you should follow the schoolboy method. I shall not teach you anything, nor do I expect you to learn anything. I, too, am a man and a snob. Do you manage to make out the connection...