Word: young
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this connection, it may be well to point out that in 1917 we had at Harvard some few of the same type of various young ass that wrote this "editorial" yet in such a small minority that they were entirely lost sight of when Harvard men began to flock to the colors...
Professor Rogers has now carefully explained his advice to young men of Technology that they train themselves to be snobs. He would have them become snobs divested of all snobbery. They are to cultivate self-respect, but equally are they to show respect for the rights and the human feelings of others. This is a dual feat which no snob of past history has ever accomplished, or tried to accomplish. But Professor Roger's snob of the future should be able to compass it, because he is to be a snob in an altogether new sense of the word...
...Harper (O), and I. R. Mann (C); Low Hurdles: Harper and R. M. N. Tisdall (C); Shot-Put: C. F. Cates (O), and Tisdall: Broad Jump: N. W. Revans (C), and W. T. Sartain (O): High Jump: C. G. Gordon (O), T. P. Noel (C): and A. E. Young (C): Pole Vault: W. H. Bayley (C), E. R. McPhee (C), and E. R. McGell...
Taking a page from Thackeray in the reverse, the Professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology advised the graduating class to imitate the snob, not to ridicule or despise him. Perhaps this was simply Professor Rogers's way of startling the bourgeois young engineers. Or it may be that, as he intimated, they had been so long living under the shadow of Harvard's snobbery that a little irony had to be expended upon the contrast. Yet it was with a grave appearance of sincerity that he urged the graduates to study carefully the snob in order...
...student is the fact that we see a wonderful bunch of fellows out there on the field, willing and anxious to advance the Green and Gold banner of baseball prestige as far as they are able to do so. They're clean players; they're young players; they're good players. What more can one ask? You who come to the games cannot help but enjoy them. Again we demand--What more...