Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Edrie A. Weld, Jr. '46 brought his annual report before the Council last night. The report, a concise summary of Council activities for the year, will be available to students through House libraries and possibly common rooms...
...violently different from that of the normal individual: "As long as we deal with the average man we will fail to encounter an alcoholic addict because the average man doesn't become addicted." This physiological basis seems to be inherited: investigators report that alcoholism is 74 times as common a cause of psychoses among men of Irish descent as among those of Jewish descent...
...surprising, then, that Harvard, with its own little corps of militia men, acquired the sobriquet of "military" when the strife was at last ever. For a while the "mercury" militia still drilled on the Common or on the Delta, where Memorial Hall now stands, and Cambridge was for a while thought of as a very warlike community. The loyalists on Tory Row, now Brattle Street, had left hurriedly for Canada, and the Yankee merchants who moved into the fine old houses established a standard of luxury that showed a new, rich era had indeed arrived. One party of Colonel Henry...
While Cambridge's luxury remained, her military reputation died a very natural death. One cause of the reputation was the big arsenal that had been established beyond the Common--in fact, somewhere near the site of the Radeliffe dormitories At first the Arsenal was taken very seriously, but when it became evident that the British weren't coming back to Greater Boston, the undergraduates discovered that the old cannonballs might come in useful. They rolled them to their rooms in Stoughton and Hollis, heated them in the fire, and then put them to heat the next room, where there...
...Bombe Common...