Word: sophomoricism
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The eight-hour display in the Yard Monday night and early yesterday morning of club initiates carousing without the slightest regard for the men residing there is of course, extremely childish. Such sophomoric abortions as the invasion of dormitory rooms whose occupants were totally unknown to the neophytes, the moronic...
It is hardly worth the trouble to point out that in the short space of one and a half column inches Time, the weekly news magazine, last week made three errors and a revolting inference. One might as well arise and answer the doorbell every time it rings on Halloween...
Dr. Fosdick to the contrary, there is no longer the lure al honor in the activity at Harvard. There are too many influences at work to discourage the "big man" idea. The Harvard undergraduate whose activities have placed him in the sun is rather pitied by his friends for the...
I gather increasing entertainment each week, from TIME'S letters, especially from such diverting ones as that of John H. Hammond Jr., (May 7). This lad must be very Junior indeed; the sophomoric conceit fairly oozes from him. The prospect of your losing Mr. Hammond Jr.'s patronage...
Still I had read it, and if the truth must be told, with amusement, finding it typically American, quaintly ungrammatical and sophomoric. Further it did not seem to be well disposed or given to amiable qualities. The conspicuous examples of the latter are too long to rewrite. However a few...