Word: bookbag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generation of students have known Abbott Lawrence Lowell as a frostily friendly man, now white-haired, white-mustached, pouchy-eyed, who putters about the Yard hello-ing everybody. Wearing always a low stiff collar and an oldtime high-cut jacket, he carries like all good Bostonians a green bookbag, is always accompanied by "Phantom," a blind old spaniel that has to be guided across busy streets by the crook of Dr. Lowell's cane. Harvardmen know that their "Prexy" is rich, resolute, articulate, astringent; an authority on political science and campanology (the science of bells); A Lowell of Lowells...