Word: grads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cigars; the gold lace and glory is never in the public eye. The little countries must supply that for us--the ones whose names end in aria and aria, where government is a piratical adventure and not a staid, if piratical, affair of business. A Balkan Queen, making a grad progress through the States, probably attracted more notice than would the Queen of England, had she been the guest...
...immaculate white waistcoats and dinner jackets of the very latest cut." Is it not a sartorial sin at Harvard to combine a white waistcoat with a dinner jacket? To old-fashioned chaps this is as irregular as russet colored shoes worn with evening dress. How about it? AN OLD GRAD...
...Manhattan, the oldest grad attending the ceremony was Brigadier General Pitman...
...these will be so arranged that all idea of a "regional championship" will be eliminated. Neither Yale nor Harvard, Dartmouth nor Brown, Amherst nor Williams, will be known as the premier team of New England. This, it is hoped, will alternate the non-collegiate "sport" and indeed the "old grad," thereby lessening exaggerated publicity. Bowl and stadium will be more sparsely occupied but also more sportsmanlike. The system, in brief, is that long in vogue at the English universities, the "championship" of our four class teams taking the place of the "intercollegiate" series among the twenty odd colleges of Oxford...
...these molders of college opinion ask is that the football team be reduced to "the present status of the crew," meaning "good training and a correct balance of importance and pleasure." As to the "pleasure," the crew man might demur; but he will be one with undergraduate and old grad in the matter of "importance." --New York Times