Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students who want a quick glance at a fencing meet should show up around 4:30 p.m., Peroy said. That's when the saber matches usually begin, and it's in saber that the swordsmen have their field...
Today, Monro still has one of the most difficult positions in the University. His long, lean frame and intent features, crowned by straight black hair that sticks up in spikes, are a familiar sight around the Yard at all hours of the day and night. His shirt-sleeved figure has been seen at his office typewriter more than once by Weld Hall residents returning from late dates. His charges, which include veterans in all parts of the University, now number something over 7,000--only 2,000 below the peak of 1946-47. His office is the channel for about...
...would be strange if his audience didn't. Marquand likes Charley Gray and he is vexed with the people and circumstances that push him around. He thinks Charley is in a rat race; he is frank enough to admit that he finds himself running...
...Dasher Conant, but after hitting the books with some success (he took his degree in three years), he decided that science was not his field. The most attractive job he could find was a place as a cub reporter on the Boston Transcript. He was just learning his way around when President Wilson called out the National Guard, ordered some of it to the Mexican border. A friend reminded John that he had joined Battery A a while before and that he'd better go. "So I did, but I don't really know why. I was never...
Marquand still becomes choleric when he thinks of the stuff he wrote. "It seemed to me the most dreadful thing to end your days putting your energy into a campaign for Lifebuoy Soap-and all those Phi Beta Kappas sitting around trying to get ideas...