Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...understand, the opinions of others with whom we are out of sympathy. Blinded to our own faults, we pride ourselves that we are not as others--whom we variously describe as "wet" or "aesthetic" or with even harsher epithets. We are intolerant, and intolerance is the concomitant of conceit...
...least, says Professor Thorndike, of Columbia, famous as the father of the psychological-test-for-entrance-to-college system, and who now proposes another scheme of education reform. The old system of grading is demoralizing to students, depending as it does, upon mere chance, or "the stupid conceit and sardonic indifference of the individual instructor". The shocking results of such a system, continues Professor Thorndike, are demonstrated by the scandalous fact that at Harvard As are thirty-five-times as common in Greek as in English courses. Such things must not be! Substitute for this unspeakable system the exact...
...read the papers today one might think we were back in the nineties. The scoffing at the college man and his conceit is now almost as frequent as it was then. After the war for not inexplicable reasons the press temporarily conceded that University training might be of some use after all. Now they are beating out the old refrain again with pre-war vigor...
...after all, who are to strip? The masses or only a select few--only the lovely and symmetrical and artistical--or who so conceit themselves? A or Anne, may be chaste but clumsy; B, or Betsy delicate-minded but dumpy and dowdy; C, active and fond of dancing but ugly; F, feminine in feeling but fat and fubsy. Must they therefore cover up? Must only Grace, Beauty and Agility go cool whilst Fat swelters and Fubsy faints? If so may there not be an exclusiveness in Polka as in Piety--and a monopoly of nakedness as of righteousness--a Socialism...