Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...begin to dispose of the issue. But it does indicate the scientific method of approach. It is utterly opposed to the swashbuckling code of honor or manliness, which sets up the slab-back policy and the hip-pocket ethics as categorical imperatives under all circumstances. To snub with a sneer the claims of a thousand other considerations is not patriotism; it is treason. CECIL H. SMITH 2L. Chairman. H. DAVIS '18. R. H. GARRISON '18. G. L. HOWE '18. A. N. McCOMB '18. W. B. SOUTHWORTH '18. C. F. ZUKOSKI '19. B. D. ALLISON...
Professor Johnston once remarked in a history course that ours was the only country since the Roman Empire in which the possession of intellect was considered a reproach. He alluded, of course, to the sneer which always accompanies the word "highbrow". It is a condition which should cause us serious reflection. One of the faults of a democracy lies apparently in the fact that while education is more widely diffused its quality is somewhat diluted. High scholarship is not honored in America as it is abroad. Other countries recognize the attainments of their learned citizens by some particular distinction: England...
...days when Yale used to win most of her games from Harvard, the Harvard sneer at Yale for making such a serious matter of her sports was very familiar. Harvard used to say, and try to believe, that play ought not to be made such grim work. Now that conditions are reversed, the attitude toward football, assumed or real, is reversed also. Yale takes some satisfaction in saying that Hinkey has made the game enjoyable to his men anyhow. On the other hand it is evident that Harvard now makes as serious a matter of its sports as Yale used...
...value to the University is worth considering also. Should Harvard feel less ashamed of losing a debate than a ball game? If men come to College to learn baseball or football, and that alone, an athletic defeat would rightly bring greater chagrin. But--the young men who sneer at Phi Beta Kappa and other scholarly achievements to the contrary notwithstanding -- one comes to College to improve one's mind, not one's batting eye. So a defeat in debating--since it is a contest of minds.--should be even more of a blow to the pride of the College than...
...those who would have College dramatics purely masculine in casts, we should suggest that real dramatic tasks cannot be performed by casts in which the heroine resembles rather the blacksmith that the gentlewoman. College talent should not be confined to burlesque. As for the incorrigibles, those cynies who sneer at anything but the professional stage, too often of superficiality, we can say nothing. We hope that this category includes few, and that the other classes will this year give their hearty support...