Word: dens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hoary as old ivy and the Charles Regatta. Without slighting Mr. Dewey, it may be said that the College would probably have voted just as happily for any other G.O.P. candidate, whether living or dead. It has always been thus. Since the days of the first President, Harvard, supposed den of political pinks, has consistently lined up on the conservative side, the side of the Federalists, the Whigs, and currently the Republicans...
...Well, I'm not throwing the Bullock you. Harvard has many an Ableman" quoth the wizened philosopher, taking a hitch in his Rawers. "We'll throw McDaniel into the Irosu den...
Quia me vestiga terrent, Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum. That's what Horace said, and it means "It frightens me to see all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning." Now it turns out that Horace didn't say these words at Cornell Saturday afternoon; on top of that, he never went to Harvard. But gentlemen, let us grant that Horace thinks and writes as if he were educated, along with the rest of us, in the Harvard Stadium, with time out for an occasional field trip to places such as Charlottesville or Ithaca...
These technical obstacles alone should not determine the fate of the Red Book, however. Council funds at present are adequate to support the book, and the recent Freshman Affairs report shows how to case the personnel problem. University Hall does not exert overpowering pressure one way or another. (Den Leighton would like to see the Red Book stay, but he will not try to interfere in the Council's business.) Logically, therefore, the Council should consider the tastes of the Freshmen...
...those who like their jazz pure, an airing of Bob Wilbur's New Orlcans artists direct from their den in Boston's Club Savey will be a weekly feature...