brass + -en → brazen (shameless)

Every year, thousands of students knock on the door of Ivy League universities.

...A Castellated mansion...

Underbearers in conversation are, undoubtedly, much less irksome than overbearers, yet too much hesitation and timidity render a man unfit for colloquial purposes; and we cannot but smile at Cowper's delineation of this very cautious gentleman.