Word: gauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These achievements did not keep him from being a gay, and well-known wit. Once three of us, undergraduates still,--of, whom Kittredge was one and I another-were accused of doing something required "a good deal of gall." Whereupon said "Kitty,"-"All Gaul is divided into three parts." I have often been credited with this coruscating retort...
...Like Gaul, Harvard is divided three ways, into the graduate schools and laboratories, the Yard (not campus, please) and the Houses. The Yard, birthplace of Harvard, lies between Cambridge Street and Massachusetts Avenue and contains the Freshman dormitories, classrooms, and administration buildings. To the north is the graduates' empire, to the south are the lairs of the upperclassmen, and across the river the Business School and Stadium are situated...
...paced the deck of the imperial yacht that summer evening in 1908, the Kaiser must have recalled Clovis the Frank, who carved a kingdom out of Gaul and South Germany in the 5th Century; and of Pepin the Young and his bastard son Charles Martel, statesmen rather than warlords, who founded the Carolingian Dynasty, the greatest ever to rule Germany. And of Charles the Great Carolingian, whose Empire stretched from the Elbe to the Ebro...
...watch him is to wonder more and more at this little Gaul. Like a cat, he is at once perfectly relaxed and hair-trigger quick. Parry, parry, feint, feint-his man hopelessly out of position-touche! Like an angler playing a fish is one simile that comes to mind. Echoes have been heard of his merry wit. And he once drove racing cars, though he ruefully admits that he never won a race. Yet the most engaging thing about him is his perfect courtesy. A raw-boned and awkward freshman steps before him. Nothing is right about his stance...
...Like Gaul, all Harvard is divided into three parts, of which the Yard, containing the Freshman dormitories and most of the college classrooms, is the oldest. North of the Yard are several graduate schools and the laboratories and museums. Stretching to the south, down to the river, are the seven houses of the upperclassmen, while across the Charles are the Business School; tennis courts, soccer field, and Soldiers Field...