Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story underlying the Reinhardt tradition is no doubt touching. The picture of the poor, friendless boy calling his own name at his own lighted window is one to be perpetuated by generations of Harvard men. To be sure, Harvard may be too indifferent to its wealth of traditions. But the average senior prefers sleep to an overindulgence in any custom whatsoever. If Reinhardt were put to bed at ten P. M. every night there are few who would miss...
...college traditions have a way of changing, developing along with the student body. Even those undergraduates who knew the story of Reinhardt, the friendless student who is supposed to have called his own name outside his lighted window, had never heard of an earlier McKean, the senior who leaped from the roof of Harvard Hall to that of Hollis, after a futile attempt to freeze up the bell. Already freshman caps and freshman rules of conduct were held in contempt; yet there were still those who recalled the abolition of "Bloody Monday" as a loss to be mourned...
...armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone bankrupt and has died from the shock, but Abigail, friendless and in financial straits, still has strength to refuse the wounded man's earnest proposal, though she loves him, and to make her way "into the black night--alone...
...POOR MAN?Stella Benson? Macmillan ($2.00). The unheroic " hero " is a " poor, sickly thing," a contemptible, insignificant, friendless Englishman. The book is a catalog of his inadequacies, as opposed to the very different inadequacies of those who despise him, in bohemian California, on the Yangtze in China. The author's pen is a sharp, acidulous weapon...
...stranger. In other words, it is the old cry of "Drag" and "Cliques." But it is indeed an old cry--one so often repeated that it has long since lost its meaning. For one disgruntled upper-classman there have usually been ten men who came into college friendless and unknown, yet were able by their merits to win the recognition they sought...