Word: exception
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent presentation of the Birds of Aristophanes given in Greek by the Classical Club, the fast and witty dialogue failed to draw any audience reaction except from the most learned professors in the front rows. The biting satire, so pertinent to the world today, was completely lost on the undergraduates. Here is a sad commentary on the neglect of the classics while the social sciences here at Harvard are flooded with more students than they can handle...
...Except for a few spots (Denver, Chicago), preoccupation with the war question was general. Everywhere people opposed any war but sided with the Democracies if there must be one. Everywhere their belief that should Europe fight, the U. S. would be drawn in, was a fatalistic, unhappy, shoulder-shrugging belief. In few quarters was any one so cheerfully cynical as retired General Smedley D. ("Gimlet Eye") Butler of the U. S. Marines, who said at Albuquerque, N. Mex.: "After Italy and Germany get the swamps and deserts they're after, they'll all sit down and talk...
This is the first of a series of articles attempting to present undergraduate reaction to the Student Council's athletic report designed to abolish all minor and junior Varsity (except football and crew) sports...
Major and minor Crimson captains have presented a united front in condemning the Student Council's athletic report released Monday which advises the gradual abolition of all minor and Jayvee (except football and crew) sports, and the incorporation of all these sports (with their coaches) into House Athletic Program...
Love would made no prediction on the outcome of the M. I. T. race except to state that they would be an unknown quantity. However, their past record and unorthodox style indicates that they should not constitute a serious threat so early in the season...