Word: strangerness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drew an analogy between people we dislike and people we don't know, asserting that too many of our prejudices against those about us are due to ignorance of their character. "It is normal to like people", he said, "and if we conceive an instinctive prejudice against every stranger it is a sure sigh of an abnormal or diseased mentality...
...fail to make a success or to find friends at college, often complain that friendships are made before college and that there are no opportunities for the stranger. In other words, it is the old cry of "Drag" and "Cliques." But it is indeed an old cry--one so often repeated that it has long since lost its meaning. For one disgruntled upper-classman there have usually been ten men who came into college friendless and unknown, yet were able by their merits to win the recognition they sought...
...neither the money nor the personnel to do the work efficiently or adequately. One has only to serve for a short time at the Information desk to realize wherein the present room service falls. A Freshman, not over seventeen, obviously away from home for the first time and a stranger to Cambridge asks where he can find a room. Sometimes in the rush hours a printed list is put in his hand; sometimes a few houses on that list are checked off for him as being in desirable localities. There are several hundred private houses on the list; almost without...
...dormitories long since filled, will probably not greatly enjoy his first few days of college. True, the Information Bureau at Phillips Brooks will tell him where he can get rooms. But it tells him of so many places that the advice is at first a little confusing to the stranger...
...Angell has been in Cambridge before as a graduate student--and so is hardly a stranger here. The welcome accorded to him will be all the more hearty for that very reason...