Word: hahvahd
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...ghost of F. Scott Fitzgerald might have passed unnoticed through the crowds at Princeton's Cottage Club Friday night. Three of the most selective--read exclusive--eating clubs had joined forces to stage a "casino party" in honor of "Hahvahd weekend," a phrase which for some reason everyone down there thinks is hilariously funny...
...sends it to the bottom without hitting any bumper. "Bound hands" is the general expression of futility when a skilled pinster really cares but remains unlucky. But skill or luck, Harry's Club has always been one place, however near the Advocate, which could never be regarded as Hahvahd...
Centre, of course, gained her greatest National distinction in 1921 by beating Hahvahd (often vulgarly referred to as Harvard) 6-to-0, but her other triumphs were impressive . . . That year Centre had one of her seven undefeated, untied seasons (a "2-U" season as it were) . . . Centre was the fourth Southern team to play Hahvahd and only the first to defeat Hahvahd...
Centre, of course, gained her greatest National distinction in 1921 by beating Hahvahd (often vulgarly referred to as Harvard) 6-to-0, but her other triumphs were impressive. . . . That year Centre had one of her seven undefeated, untied seasons (a "2-U" season as it were). . . . Centre was the fourth Southern team to play Hahvahd and only the first to defeat Hahvahd...
...Harvard accent," according to the Bulletin, is easy. There is no such thing. Citizens of the rolling-R States confuse it with the Boston accent (Hahvahd, haht, cah, etc.), which is the same as the New England accent, except that its point of origin is in the throat rather than the nose...