Word: conceits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pride and conceit which accompanied this remarkable declaration...
...plea is for a change in the attitude towards studies and for the breaking down of the preeminence of the extra-curriculum activity. I believe that the extra-curriculum activity, as it does little more than restrict the undergraduate's outlook on life and fill him with empty conceit, fails to prepare him for the future. At present, the undergraduate condemns studies in his anxiety to become great in college. But which is more to be desired: fame in college, or fame in later life...
...Educators . . . assume in their fat conceit that their own state of mind is the desirable...
...University and the parietal regulations for years without really knowing the students, the professors or the well-worn grooves in which they both conduct their separate existences. Just when one begins to think he knows something about the place, along comes a trivial incident to upset his conceit and make him marvel anew as on the first day of his arrival in Cambridge...
...cigarette is a small thing: so is a match. Both are smaller still after being burnt, but, as the poet says, "Little drops of water, little grains of sand,' etc. If we carry on the conceit, the purpose of my letter immediately becomes apparent. It is supposed to be hard enough to begin with to get students into class-rooms. Certainly, then, it is illogical that we should have to reach them by wading a moat of cigarettes and scaling a wall of matches...