Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first play B. K. Little '23 has won the title role. As Erasmus, Little will be by far the most important character in the play. Erasmus is a young man who has been educated out of his station, and returns to his humble parents with considerably enlarged conceit. The fall of his pride and his ultimate humbling form the theme of the play...
...Freshman officers were never very difficult: a smoker, a Red Book, and the choosing of a few committees. But this year these four men have the huge task of bringing their class to its senses and making it realize that mere numbers do not justify the ricidulous conceit which is now 1921's dominant characteristic. Last year, and even more so in previous years, the Freshman knew his place and kept in it. There was no hazing,--it was unnecessary,--but the Freshman respected the upperclassman and treated him with consideration. In those days the Freshman was rarely asked...
Upon the walls of Emerson Hall is chiselled in marble (which only in man's conceit is pereternal) the question: "What...
...southing sun shines on the goal posts of the stadium, we remember proud victories of the past, and no less proud defeats. Though the five continents be swallowed up in war, and the Kaiser twist his embattled moustaches a thousand times a day with the fierce conceit of conquest, still football will go on. As long as there is one ball to boot, and one goal line to cross, and two men to meet shoulder against shoulder at the last stand on the fourth down, football will...
...that there is anything remarkable about 1921, as Harvard classes go. Nothing except its grand conceit, which waxes to the zenith in Freshmen...