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Another of these degrees went to Professor Rogers, who several years ago horrified local circles by advocating the young business man to marry the boss's daughter, and to be a snob. Acknowledging the award, Mr. Rogers said: "I want to say first of all a few words to my mother in Walla Walla. I got fouled in the second round and he refuses to give me a return bout." Another touch of humor which the reunioning classes have loft for reminiscence next year was Joseph Seabury's comment the other night to 1904 that he had been reading...
Galleryites who have tired of the French and their U. S. imitators will welcome his assurance that the "snob spirit" which made native painters "ashamed of their heritage and environment" is passing, will be inclined to agree with his prophecy of the return of representationalism...
...arts. Most of Maine's 1,408 students, one-third of whom are women, come from the State's farms and small towns. A student who dresses up is a sissy and one who fails to shout "Hello" at everyone he meets on the campus is a snob. Men wear corduroys and sweaters, add sheepskins and knee boots when it gets cold. For fun they go off on hunting & fishing trips, hoot and stamp their boots in Orono's lone cinema theatre. Each spring freshman and sophomore boys take three days off for their class fight. This...
...tendency of private education is to make insufferable little snobs of our offspring-not through the influence of the teachers but through the influence of other class-conscious pupils-and what is more intolerable (and intolerant) than a child-snob? But I would risk that (and it is a mighty unworthy parent who is unable to offset Phariseeism at home) if I could make sure of securing for my children the influence of teachers to whom their job is not just a pay envelope and a step higher on the ladder of respectability than the rung to which they were...
TIME, March 12, glorifies Charles Dickens properly, but errs in attributing to "modern debunkers" a description of Dickens as "snob, sentimentalist and egotist." Those identical qualities of Dickens caused him to be kicked down the stairs of the Louisville Gait House in the late '60s. The manager of that famed hotel put his boot in Dickens' rear and lifted him down the great stairway, to the amazement of the world. Kentucky historians record the incident. It can be verified by files of the Louisville Courier-Journal, now owned by our Ambassador to the Court of St. James...