Word: chipped
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...condemn Mr. Arthur Pounds' suggestion in the Atlantic nor the CRIMSON'S praise of that suggestion. Even as a man who carries a chip on his shoulder I think it most excellent. Nor do I question the generality that "educated people are the happiest". I am not concentrating in philosophy. And if I accused the CRIMSON of passing judgement, I am entirely to blame for such an accusation. It is not in the province of liberais to pass judgement on anything...
...Iron Man", as did Mr. Seaver in his communication of the 16th, is a mystery to me. Not having "been to busy furthering civilization to give much thought to it", I find the ideas you there advanced rather compelling, as would anyone who did not read it with "a chip on his shoulder". The CRIMSON, I take it, did not "pass judgement" on anyone. It merely tried to point out that the Age of Machinery has brought with it fewer hours of labor--for the student as well as for the "chap who, if nothing else, is at least...
People often speak of Harvard "indifference," but no man ever displayed less indifference than Theodore Roosevelt: they speak of Yale aggressiveness and pertinacity, but Mr. Taft could hardly he cartooned with a chip on his shoulder; and as for Princeton people have not commonly visualized the New Jersey institution as mother of cold intellectuals. Now if Mr. Wilson had been a graduate of Harvard and Mr. Roosevelt of Yale and Mr. Wilson had been a graduate of Harvard and Mr. Roosevelt of Yale, and Mr. Taft of Princeton, we might have seen, or at least seemed to see, the relation...