Word: bunche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the V-1, V-7, V-12, and so on, group the only large bunch of College men to return in uniform, prospects looked dim, but life went on. Final exams struck. Commencement came with Harvard's only honorary degree for the year going to Joseph Clark Grew '02; in attendance were 4000 service men who received certificates of training from the University...
...them seem to be lassies from west of the Hudson who didn't make one of the good colleges and who want the advantages of an "Eastern education"; the ratio of snobs is, if anything, higher than that of empty-heads. The best lot of the college is the bunch that is mixed up in dramatics. If you are interested in acting, try to get a part in an Erskine play. You can learn dramatics and enjoy yourself simultaneously...
...hank, "A great show by a great bunch. There's no theatrical manager who wouldn't grab it without the uniforms." Private Earl Carroll made half of a recruiting act which played Manhattan vaudeville theaters. Federal officers seized copies of the song It'll Be a Hot Time for the Old Boys when the Young Men go to War. Notable entertainers who volunteered to go overseas were John Drew, Billie Burke, Jane Cowl. Lillian Russell, Walter Damrosch. Maude Adams...
...your knowledge of that battle is limited to what has been written in the ordinary school history, you may think that it was just a bunch of wild Indians out on the warpath to get a few scalps. But let me assure you that such was not the case. Those Indians were fighting, as any freedom-loving people will fight, for their property and their home land. The white men at Adobe Walls were trespassers in every sense of the word. They admitted it themselves...
...electron paused and stratched his ear thoughtfully; then went on. "Yes, I've had my troubles here just like everybody else, but in spite of everything. I like it. It's a pleasure to work with such a fine bunch of men. Every electron in the school says the same thing. Just ask them. There's only one other thing I have to complain of. Sometimes Professor Wing goes so fast in his lectures, I can't keep up with...