Word: dreadful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting. An emeritus professor who has nothing to gain or lose in a personal or professional way, makes pointed and personal criticism of the policies of the present administration, but does not wish to be quoted or to even have the incidents he mentions connected with Harvard, because 'all dread scandal'. However the Harvard CRIMSON is not so cautions." He then makes several quotations from CRIMSON editorials commenting upon President Lowell's letter to Professor Baker upon the occasion of his acceptance of the call to Yale...
...take it that most of the unrest about Harvard's state has sprung from the old grads pining for the panty days. The democratic student at Harvard would not be aware of any menace to the grand old institution were it not for the atmosphere of dread east over the place by the old gravis, who treasure the past like a sacred jewel. But the past is forever being violated, and it happens that this is an era of particularly swift and radical change, natural and orderly, nevertheless. A brass task? Or a doctor? I think we need the brass...
...good time the female dread...
...great, solemn procession of statesmen, relatives, soldiers marched behind the coffin to Chopin's dread funeral music and between two dense, black, sorrowing files of people who lined the entire route of the cortege...
...pure sympathy for the victim, it might at first thought be suggested that this University offer him aid and comfort; but the suggestion dies in dread of the result of furnishing refuge to all Yale men who desire to marry. On second thought sympathy gives way to apprehension, lest the University itself adopt rules similar to the one just enforced in New Haven. Next term's Regulations might include such clauses as: "Undergraduates announcing their engagements shall be placed on probation", or "No man shall be eligible for the Deans' List until he has taken a vow of celibacy...