Word: comport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advice to 1946 interspersed with humorous references to former Freshmen who had been in their position in previous years. He emphasized that Freshmen in Harvard College are never babied or pampered, but are treated and taken "just as seriously as Seniors." Part of the Harvard tradition requires that Freshmen comport themselves in as adult a fashion as first-year men in Oxford or Cambridge, and there is no system of hazing here as there is at many other American universities...
...many people sang with the Minister. But there were also hisses, and a sabre-scarred German in civilian clothes protested to the Minister that the song was anti-German. The Minister replied that he liked the song, that Bulgaria was neutral, and that he would comport himself as he pleased. Thereupon the German threw a champagne bottle at the Minister who, in warding it off, got a six-inch bruise in his forearm. The Minister promptly socked the German in the face, knocking him down. It was the Minister's third personal café tangle with the Axis since...