Word: dewing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baseball among friends. There were no professional coaches to curse into you the seriousness of your effort, nor vast galleries of rooting college mates and fair hero worshipers to wipe out your sense of values. Their absence was reflected in the names of the various nines--Dew Drops, Rubber Neeks, Jumbos, Lobsters, Boiler Makers, Minced Chickens, Fussers, Rounders, High Balls, Wash Bottles, Dropped Eggs, etc., etc. It is hard to be a hero with such a name across your chest...
...Laimbeer, J. W. Lund, H. H. MacCubbin, W. C. Macdonald, W. K. Manly, James Martin, K. D. Mann, J. D. W. Morrill, Noe Morss. G. B. Moynahan, H. C. Newman, G. A. Norton, R. M. Parker, P. R. Pease, H. B. Peek, J. W. Perkins, F. deW, Pingree, H. I. Pratt, Donald Reynolds. K. M. Rogers L. H. Roots, Carlos Sanchez, R. H. Schacht Jr., L. H. Sherrill, G. E. Smith, Donald Spencer, A. H. Stafford, W. S. Stone, R. K. Stover D. LeB Sweeney, B. A. G. Thorndike, R. D. Tucker, R. F. Vance, C. F. Victor...
...Bryan turned away and then again facing the student body said: 'Ladies and gentlemen: I've come a long way to address you students at Brown, but I shall certainly have to retire before this magnificent, bubbling fountain of wisdom on my right.' That was the end." Frederick deW. Pingree...
...What calm, delicious window, looks out at the moon rising through the trees, and muses. "In such evenings! The student stands at his a night as this Troilus sighed his love toward the Grecian tents where Cressida lay. . . . In such a night did This-be fearfully o'ertrip the dew . . . In such a night stood Dido with a willow in her hand . . . . In such a night . . . . I'd mortgage my immortal soul to be free in such a night. Yet in such a night to be compelled to study! Ugh!" With murder in his heart he turns his back upon...
...with a few admonitions from an elder friend. The Transcript is the last of all Boston papers whose words merit caustic reception at Harvard. Even if its editorial had a slightly paternal lingo, the intent was kindly. Harvard has enough ill-wishers already without carping at its friends. Frederick deW Pinaree...