Word: soubriquet
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...bits of conventional wisdom about Harvard is that it is “godless,” a soubriquet cast upon us in 1886 when, as part of President Charles W. Eliot’s experiment in undergraduate liberty known as the “elective plan,” the College abandoned compulsory attendance at Morning Prayers. At that time, most colleges regarded moral education as one of their duties and, together with courses in moral philosophy that were often conducted by The Reverend President, they expressed that duty through the system of compulsory chapel. There, the students would...
...Most career men (diplomats) begin right by possessing a private school or tutor background and a Harvard education. Schooling at this institution, which delights in the soubriquet of the American Oxford, gives a clipped accent not unlike the British speech."--Chicago Tribune, January...
...bulk of his statements about national economic and political policy, the head of the Republican party demonstrated that haziness and self-contradiction which earlier earned him the soubriquet of "confused liberal." Only this time the strands were such that "confused conservative" would be a more accurate designation...
...most heroic living name in the U. S., Lindbergh is now a hated word in Communist, Jewish and other anti-Nazi groups. With Charles Augustus Lindbergh taking Nazi medals and househunting in Berlin, Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., last week paid the new anti-Lindberghism the deference of dropping its soubriquet of "The Lindbergh Line...
...Victories" Wei Li-huang. They were harassing the Japanese shoulder to shoulder last week, although four years ago the Chinese Government was offering $100,000 for the "Red Napoleon" alive or $80,000 for him dead; and the "100 Victories" (more or less) which earned General Wei his soubriquet were won in skirmishes aimed to exterminate the Chinese communists of General...