Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quadwrangler, writes educational gossip for the Boston Transcript, disagrees. He thinks the successful undergraduate is such merely because of an excess of the competitive spirit, whereas the true student is such because he "must"-his simple doom is to be scholarly. Without coming to blows with the venerable Bostonian, it is possible to point out that he is, unfortunately, quite wrong. It is as possible to be a great halfback because one must as to be a Phi Beta Kappa man for like reasons. There once was a race of people known as the Greeks-but Quadwrangler knows all about...
...Flower," "The Hottentot" --to name four of their five plays thus far--have all been so chosen. Resurrecting "Mamma's Affair," spying out "The Big Game," choosing the pieces aforesaid, the St. James escapes the rut of the sure and the standardized, adds to the current interest of the Bostonian stage...
Just to demonstrate to the visiting cast that they were playing in Boston, the audience received the more serious parts of play with true Bostonian Litters. And when Ben-Ami ended by shooting himself through the stomach he was rewarded by generous guffaws...
When once this youth from the middle-west has decided not to "play" his Bostonian classmates to get himself introduced into their social sets, he firmly resolves to despise these men who out-shine him in their appearance at debutante dances, etc. Having resolved to despise them he hunts for reasons to justify his contempt: he ridicules their accent, their mannerisms, their dress. In short they are not like him, and they are having a gayer time, therefore, they are not to be despised as sissies and cads...
...want) or old clothes (which he usually has on). But Phillips Brooks House does have other functions besides finding strange room-mates for even stranger Freshmen, and bothering us with printed questionnaires which would make the War Department green with envy. It possesses the main qualification of a "true Bostonian,"--to wit: a High Moral Purpose in life. That it lives up to this standard may be learned by diligent perusal of its spring statement which appears as usual, this year, under the title of "Annual Report...