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...sustain the reputation of the institution with which he is connected it is commonly but erroneously, supposed that is he develops his muscles, if he subscribes to the athletic enterprises and the College papers, if he occasionally at tends recitations, and if he professes a healthy antipathy to frigid religious exercises at frigider hours of the most frigid of winter mornings, he has done enough. In other universities he very probably has; but in Harvard the case is other wise. Strong, generous learned, and liberal as Alma Mater unquestionably is her greatest glory lies in the faultless folds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...first signs of spring were apparent yesterday afternoon despite the frigid weather. LeC. H. Eells 1G.B. after many tempting bribes offered to him by fellow students consented to swim across the Charles River...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT DEFIES WEATHER AND DARES FRIGID RIVER | 3/29/1928 | See Source »

...pause. Let us now change our beaming faces from a smile of loyalty to deeply furrowed frowns. Let us shake our heads and hold up a finger pregnant with remonstrance. Where is the American Flag in Cambridge? Plainly and simply-nowhere. Hardly the embers of patriotism glow in its frigid bosom. To be specific. Did the Flag, the Stars and Stripes of the American Republic, wave over University Hall on February 22 last? Yes, it did wave from two o'clock in the afternoon until six P. M. A feeble display of the ritual was carried out without that deep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATRIOTISM IN COLLEGE | 3/6/1928 | See Source »

Fifty-two thousand San Diegoists read the Union and Tribune every day. These two papers have been and will be Republican; will try to hoist Hoover to the Presidency. But Col. Copley is no haughty, hard-to-get-to hero of the frigid rich. He is a Mason, an Elk, a Knight of Pythias...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mason, Elk, Knight | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...those people who hang their walls with mechanical reproductions of the old masters, art galleries are frigid, prices of paintings and etchings are frightening, art itself is mystifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Co-operative Selling | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

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