Word: citadel
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...unsatisfactory description you find when you look up Harvard in the Encyclopedia Brittanica, fourteenth edition. Ask a middle western business man about Harvard, and he will tell you that Harvard is a hotbed of radicals and crackpots. Ask a communist, and he will explain that Harvard is a citadel of reaction, and that the University's much-vaunted liberalism is so much window-dressing. Ask a Cambridge citizen, and he will inform you that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald Duck of Cambridge politics...
...when temptation touched your citadel...
...blazing sun that sent the temperature to 110°, two of its residents - a Finnish-born, 40-year-old doctor named Arne Suominen and an eleven-year-old race horse named Duke-began a 40-mile race.* The course: to Charleston (27 miles), then 13 miles around The Citadel's foot-racing track...
Unlike most exhibitionists, neither doctor nor horse received anything for their effort last week (except possibly a little publicity for the doctor's health resort). To the Finnish Relief and the Red Cross went the $65 gate receipts taken in at The Citadel campus, the $50 the doctor wagered and some $200 in local side bets...
...necessarily brilliancy, win out. To prove it, Lowell won more firsts this year than did Kirkland; and Winthrop won as many. Steady performances in other sports--only possible in a House where men are willing to make sacrifices for 'honor and glory'--turned the tide. Further, Dunster House--the citadel of indifference, according to the boys' own proud boast--has come out near the bottom in each of the past six years...