Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of Seniors each spring who announce their immediate entrance into those dubiously holy bonds of matrimony does not include all of the Senior class is really astounding. Breathers there a man with nostrils so for from sensitive that he relishes the dust of Senior chambers...
...course no college paper ever must touch upon such minute, even microscopic matter as dust. But until the Senior dormitories lose their dust, stirred only by the infrequent and maladroit ministrations of the femme de chambre or "goodie", a diminutive, hundreds will go forth from Harvard College lined with dust...
...there any particular reason why well built dormitories should thus fill-with dust. There are, even in such hinterlands as this of greater Boston, vacuum cleaners. And somewhere there are funds to purchase, if not better "goodies", at least carpet sweepers. Man, indeed, must all too soon return to dust. The Senior year at Harvard need not be such a direct threat of doom...
...Shore dust covered mortals who cloister themselves in the squalid dignity of senior chambers awoke one noon last week from vernal lethargy to the mess call sounded from a Pickwickian bugle. The Dickens' jubilee had included among its enthusiasts that stalwart figure in the green colonial smoking jacket--John Harvard...
...personality. But none has so firmly established her message. Not without native guile is Uldine, for she bored the crew of the battleship Pennsylvania with no theological subtleties. "The sailors look so wonderful in their uniforms", she said-and the sins of five hundred middles bowed and bit the dust. What matter if only a paltry three men publicly acknowledged that they were converted by her preaching? What matter if the majority of them were apparently struck dumb before the brilliance of righteousness". They were all for one-and that one was the evangelical Uldine who admired the big guns...