Word: though
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...widespread snobbery which is practiced toward non athletic men by their fellow students who consider themselves far above them in social "rank." There are many cases of men who "cut," or treat condescendingly, a fellow-student because he wears a seedy coat or is unpolished in his manners, even though he has worked side by side with them in the laboratory or the class room for months, and may have given evidence of good, solid, manly qualities. In the majority of cases the man so snubbed will gradually, I think, rise above the contempt or condescension of his high-toned...
...congregation listened attentively and appreciatively. The college choir sang twice during the evening. The anthems sung, "The King of Love My Shepherd is" and "How Beautiful Upon the Mountains," were well rendered; the soprano solo, the duets and the quartette in the first one were particularly pleasing. The pieces though familiar to college men were new to the audience...
...expectation, passed off without any split in the class. '88 has since its entrance been noted for the harmony in the class and the freedom from cliques, but it was feared that there would be a bitter fight over some of the offices. The best men were elected though in almost every instance, and there was none of that bitter fight which so disgraced...
...hope I have made my position clear. I do not condemn Harvard's social system. On the contrary I think it most excellent. But I do condemn that pernicious, though temporary, outgrowth of it-snobbery...
...successful an effort as the "Venus Victrix" of the same author, and in this, perhaps, lies its chief fault. It should have come first and so prevented the disappointment we must feel on comparing the two. "The Message" is scarcely up to the usual standard of the Monthly, though it is a fair bit of verse, and, coming as it does from a new contributor, gives promise of better work in the future...