Word: greenest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young Sebastian Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders...
...today Coach Dick Harlow will send out eight Sophomores, one Junior who played his first Varsity game last week, one Senior reserve of last year, and only a single man who rated a regular berth last fall. The inclusion of eight Sophomores in the lineup gives the Crimson its greenest team this season, or in years...
Everyone from the greenest Freshman to most august professor is required to show his books to these attendants as he leaves the library. This practice probably dates back to one of the librarians of the past century who, it is said, knew where every volume was at all times. In fact one fall evening this librarian was seen by one of his colleagues hurrying across the Yard in great agitation. On being asked the reason for his hurry, he said. "Every book is in the library but one. Dr. Jones has that book, and I'm going...
...Reds. Both these men are being groomed for probable service this fall, for although Tim Russell and Rick Hedblom are now rated ahead of them it is not expected that either will be able to give the iron-man performance turned in by Jones last fall. Coleman is the greenest member of this quartet, being the only Sophomore of the group and playing his first season at center. Last fall he was Captain Healey's substitute on the Freshman eleven...
...acting head of the University in President Conant's absence, the note of freedom, so earnestly pounded during the Tercentenary, was once more dinned into the cars of undergraduates. Dean Sperry and Mr. Gummere, although starting from different points, also found themselves trying to impress upon the newest and greenest of Harvard's thousands what this vague term freedom meant to them as students...