Word: centered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This city is a curious anomaly. In the beginning, and for long afterwards, Harvard was Cambridge. A few decades ago the present city started mushrooming up, with nuclei in business and manufacturing centers far from Harvard Square, and the University, once the center, was swallowed in a city extraordinarily occupied with industry...
...thus, in the natural course of events, Cambridge has become more and more the busy American city, as it has lost, conversely, the atmosphere of a quiet academic center. The boosters are in control, and their little signboard at the Anderson Bridge represents the attitude of the city: bold capitals proclaim industrial growth, manufacturing leadership, Kiwanis and Rotarian meetings; and, in almost shame-faced letters below, Cambridge mentions its educational institutions. The calm that surrounded the nineteenth century giants of Cambridge is gone; and the student of the present must piece out an education as best he can amid...
After about an hour and a half which was taken up in preparing the men for the complete ceremonies and arranging costumes and make up, Coach Horween, wearing a conventionalized football costume of green tulle, danced lightly from the locker rooms and took up a position in the center of the stadium field before an impromptu altar of old sweat shirts, piled there for the occasion. With arms raised in the direction of the gas plant he invoked the Goddess Mazuma, Patronesses of Football, with the words, "I am the spirit of good football...
...from being an imposition upon those who are unable to bear it, the larger tuition fee is to be regarded as a long-deferred and necessary measure, one which will enable Harvard to maintain its standards as an educational center...
...Freshman squash team will engage the Newton Club racquetmen at Newton at 3 o'clock this afternoon and at the same time, University team C will oppose the Newton Center Squash Tennis Club on the University courts...