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Word: comely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...short, it was quite unbelievable when Rumor danced about with news of Hemenway. It would fill a great need, by affording the students an opportunity to exercise without a fifteen-minute walk to the overcrowded Gym. And now come the other tidings, that we have only six of the twelve squash courts, limited hours for basketball, etc. It seems to me that the Crimson is in a unique position to talk up for Harvard's Oliver Twist. J. A. Donovan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

Martin Marks '42, one of Myerson's Wigglesworth roommates, said last night, "I think he wants to come back to college. I have no idea how he got out there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Father Finds Vanished Yardling After Flying Trip to Salt Lake | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

Princeton's Triangle Prom will take place Friday night amid a nautical setting. The "Princetonian" warns would-be crashers that two bouncers, dressed in the guise of ship's officers, "will be on deck to greet all passengers coming aboard. While one salt will be stationed at the head of the gangplank to inspect the passports of the embarking prom-goers, his cohort will haunt the bowels of the vessel to thwart the advent of stowaways. Anyone apprehended without proper credentials will promptly be compelled to walk the plank, with an additional charge of twelve dollars." . . . Washington U's Varsity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

...most vehement opposition to this plan, even as a temporary remedy, will come from the House Masters. Strong, even ruthless, steps should be taken in quelling the objections of these gentlemen, especially when based on any such vague and dubious arguments as that of "House unity," which the inter-House system and undergraduate perversity have already destroyed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOD FOR THOUGHT AND VICE VERSA | 12/7/1938 | See Source »

...relatively unimportant whether or not twenty German students come to Harvard. Neither the undergraduate body nor the National Socialist Government will be very seriously affected one way or the other. But the question of whether an ideal as broad as Tolerance will be able to weld the student body into a united, cohesive group is of extreme importance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO GOES THERE! | 12/6/1938 | See Source »

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