Word: college
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...April 15, 1912, the sinking of the Titanic broke in on the spring sports season, and one week later it was duly noted that the victims included three graduates of the Colleg, among them Harry Elkins Widener '07. The sinking of the unsinkable wounded America's spirit of progress during the reign of the "sacred triumvirate": God, prosperity, and the Republican party. That the disaster should touch Harvard so directly was ironically appropriate, for Harvard in the early 1900's was the ne plus ultra of gentlemanly self-assurance...