Word: bookend
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...longer head the stationery of undergraduates, proud of the gleaming red seal which is the symbol proclaiming his superiority to other men. It must be out from banners and doubtless divorced from the deadly bookend, that its presence be a not too obvious prop of learning. As a substitute the Harvard arms is offered--the seal minus the circumferential lettering and the Christo et Ecclesiae, but the very shape itself must be altered from the round. What remains is a castrated version, devoid of all meaning and shorn of he grandeur of tradition...