Word: grime
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...privilege par excellence of the graduate is to say "I remember . . ." The undergraduate does not remember anything; he has no right to remember: his is the world of daily routine and ordinary values. But once--on Commencement--he has passed through the Portals and the rub and grime of the present are things of the past, his imagination starts its work of transforming and softening these ordinary values. Then, with a new note in his voice, he begins quoting "I remember when...