Word: gordons
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Psychologically speaking, the tendency for a student to return to Harvard after the war is over is a function of the length of time that the man participates in the war, explained Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology yesterday...
Hacking up Japs in the wilds of Guadalcanal is certainly not the best preparatory school for a college education, Gordon W. Allport '19, professor of Psychology, admitted yesterday. The problem of what to do with Harvard men who spend the next few years in that occupation brings in a new conception of college life...
...want to start a fight in a British pub, just step up to the bar, next to a Scot of the Gordon Highlanders, and ask the barmaid for a half pint of broken squares.* A similar but more up-to-date casus belli might be to ask a seaman off H.M.S. Churchill about the Battle of Lasola Island...
...slurring reference to the Gordon Highlanders' part in the Battle of Tamai (1884), where the Mahdi's fanatic tribesmen momentarily broke the British defensive squares...
...dramatist, student of French culture, Jones is also a critic of note, literary editor of the Transcript during the last two years of its life and frequent contributor to the Saturday Review of Literature. He is now finishing the job of editing the letters of William Makepeace Thackcray, which Gordon was forced to abandon for the Navy last December. Professor Jones hopes to have the edited letters ready by the end of the year, believing they will reval a new Thackeray--the Dr. Johnson of the 19th Century...