Word: divericate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Evidently American and British hospitality are not so widely divergent after all. We have always been taught to think the British reserved and non-committal, and have rather prided ourselves on cur furious hospitality and careless assumption of familiarity--the traits with which Dickens drew Colonel Diver. The "man on the street" may still up-hold these traditions, but with the colleges it is apparently otherwise. The supposedly staid Cantabrigians are the ones who clamber over carriages, while with all its Americanism Harvard has never been known to cause its visitors any strain other than that upon the eardrums...
...Johnson and Worcester, swimming on the relay team, and with R. F. Thayer '23 probably filling the fourth position, it should prove to be a fast combination. Captain Brackett, Johnson, Worcester and Douglass will be depended upon to take care of the dashes. As all of last year's divers have graduated, and as P. W. Goodell '23 is the only member of the 1923 Freshman team who has reported as a diver, there is need for more men in this department...