Word: friendless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once been told a story of the origin of the tradition, one which seems to be accepted by the Harvard students of today. It was that about 1900 an eccentric fellow named Rinehart moved into Gray's Hall and that he became a friendless and lonely student. He envied the other fellows whose friends were always yelling up at their rooms and (so the story went) he took to standing below his own window and singing out his own name in a sad pretence that he was popular too. Other students took up the oft reiterated call, shouted it back...