Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Transcript is so much a Boston and Harvard tradition that it is only with deepest reverence that this article is approached. One cannot lightly review the Bible or Shakespeare, and the Transcript is probably read a good deal more widely among Harvard men than either of these other classics...
...object of the head boat to row over without being bumped, and of those behind it to bump the boat in front of them. When a boat has passed the finishing-post it cannot be bumped. Bumping consists in touching the boat ahead with some portion of your boat usually, of course, the bows of one boat bump the stern of the other. As soon as a bump has been made both boats draw into the side, and later paddle up to the barges when the crews behind them have passed by. On the next day each starts where...
Whether Harvard men really are wet or not I cannot venture to say because I have never been able to find out what the word meant. The legendary Harvard man is rather "moist" (a belittling term), but that is because the originators of the numerous stories had good imaginations. Actually he seems to know quite a little about life a considerable amount to be candid. Whether he is right or not is nobody's concern. If song and story were infallible estimations of Harvard mentality, the chances are that he would be a trifle mistaken. And at this point...
...author of the article." Strawn continued, "describes lawyers as parasites on society, but I shall endeavor in my address before the Law School men to show that the man who tries to be a parasite cannot suceed in the practice...
...Soughvitz: "It thrilled me through and through and many times I rose from my seat in cheers. When I came to the part where he tells her that he meet leave her forever because after all he has another wife in San Diego I went completely berserk. Mere words cannot describe my enthusiasm. I recommend it heartily to all those desiring a good clean story." It is generally agreed that this makes the little Soughwitz girl...