Word: snobs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complimentary terms to what he is pleased to regard as "Harvard snobbishness." If there is any single cause of the growing hostility to Harvard, it is in this widespread and perhaps not altogether mistaken belief that a Harvard graduate is another name for a conceited young snob...
...remember I was told before entering college--by a graduate of Brown, I think it was--that no man could go to Harvard and stay there four years without becoming a snob. This man, like Arthur Train, cited the choice maxim, "You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him anything," as proof of his allegation. As a neophyte I was considerably impressed by this statement, but managed somehow to reserve my judgment and entered the Freshman class in 1916. In all this time I had heard nothing of the high intellectual standards which prevail...