Word: appears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity guard Eli Manos '53 gave the general team consensus when he commented, "The Radcliffe girls I've seem would appear ridiculous as cheerleaders. They just don't look the part...
...bedroom." When he failed to watch his own grooming, he was quickly pulled up short: "Once I incautiously pointed out a grease spot on a boy's shirt. He thereupon called attention to an extremely small gravy mark on my own . . . From then on I never dared appear at a troop meeting without first giving my shoes such a gloss that they could have stood sentry-go at Buckingham Palace ... I went further. I began slathering myself with after-shave lotion, gargling with mouthwash, and even polishing my belt buckle before troop meetings...
...Mercy Bent. But there were satisfactions. Boy Scouts not only pledge themselves to perform a good deed daily but actually live up to their oath. If an old lady gets sick, they will appear at her door week after week as volunteer shoppers and errand boys ("The staying power of boys on mercy bent sometimes surprises me"). If a child is ill, they will drop in to play checkers or to deliver homemade jigsaw puzzles...
...this shambles of what might have been genuine liberality, however, several happy features still appear. For one thing, the Housemasters may stretch parietal rules in whatever direction they wish, and many have already shown willingness to take advantage of this. Further, the seven to eleven extension, even it it does not apply to Fridays, is certainly worth an huzzah or two. And lastly, the Faculty's action (taken at Dean Leighton's request, who in turn was acting on a Student Council recommendation) of replacing the purloined afternoon hours on Sunday is quite pleasing...
...widely in the lands he studies, and he can get around linguistically in Greek, Arabic, Syriac and the Slavonic languages. But, like Trevelyan, he believes that history needs good writing as well as sound scholarship. His History of the Crusades, of which two out of three volumes have now appeared, is the clearest and best treatment of the period yet to appear in English...