Word: ear
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Brown first arrives in Cambridge he mistakes the Dickey Clubhouse for his dormitory and is thrown out on his ear. Nothing daunted, he proceeds to "pick up" the pretty daughter of a professor. The following spring, the night before the boat races at New London, he gets stewed, although he is substitute stroke on the freshman crew and is called upon to row the race, which he loses. Finally, with his help, Harvard licks Yale at football ten to three. Is it necessary to go on? You may not know much about Harvard, but believe me, such things just...
Perhaps that is the best method of continuing what has been one of the finest traditions at New Haven, none the less finer because of its dissimilarity from those at Harvard which would little emphasize solidarity in the social sense. To the alien ear it has a rather false ring. For fraternity systems which assumes such ramifications as to bind a college into a social unit usually stifle...
...seems to me that every man who has enjoyed Harvard's advantages and has profited thereby should now gladly attune his ear to the University's appeal for needed financial assistance. That a need exists is proven by the very fact that the appeal has gone forth; our University asks for money not in order to have it, but to use it, to keep abreast of the times, and to maintain her primacy in education. To whom shall our kindly mother turn in her need, if not to her sons? Shall we be outdone in loyalty to Harvard...
...opportune time. Such midterm elections as that which has just been practically decided in Pennsylvania should do much to crystallize what is at present a most inchoate public opinion. By the time when Prohibition may be expected to figure in a Presidential election, it should bear more of the ear-marks of an issue than have many planks in our recent party platforms...
...rather insulting bit of bombast, this. No preparatory school youth can fail to sense from afar the intellectual superiority that is Harvard's. Pity it is that be must put his ear to the ground in doubtful expectation of ever hearing a human sound to urge him hither! A Crimson Reader (Female...