Word: tutt
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...Train is a well-known author and lawyer of New York City. Among his works are "The Prisoner at the Bar" and "True Stories of Crime". In an episode of his popular "Tutt and Mr. Tutt" stories in the Saturday Evening Post, Mr. Train has dealt with the affairs of a young Harvard "prig"; and in reply to an inquiry as to why the terms "Harvard", "snobbishness", and "indifference" are, to many, synonymous, he sent the following article...
Apropos of your editorial in Thursday morning's issue on "Hostility to Harvard", I note that Arthur Train with whose stories, of "Tutt and Mr. Tutt" a greater part, no doubt, of the undergraduate population is familiar--refers in this week's number of the Saturday Evening Post in not at all complimentary terms to what he is pleased to regard as "Harvard snobbishness." If there is any single cause of the growing hostility to Harvard, it is in this widespread and perhaps not altogether mistaken belief that a Harvard graduate is another name for a conceited young snob...