Word: hahvud
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elis were to answer the same question about Hahvud, there would be no difficulty. We would picture the typical Cantab as infected with the bored indifference synonymous with the name of his university, afflicted with the "yahd" accent, his shoulders stooped under the weight of centuries of tradition. We should picture him as a dilletante intellectual addicted to Boston deb parties, who conceives of Cambridge as the hub of the collegiate universe. And then we'd all yell Reinhardt...
...keep college football, amateur or semi-pro as it may be, a strictly collegiate thing. If it doesn't stay that way, our blessed Chambers of Commerce will take over and we'll finally be able to call it professional. But until then we want to yell "Hurray Hahvud" or "Yay Yayul" blissfully unaware of the fact that the ivy-clad tradition is boosting the business index. Football should still be of, for, and by the colleges...
...saying "The Red comes are coating" but he was watching guys in tuxes doing the empty Bromo Seltzer in the big apple around my swimming pools, while a lot of people were sitting on each others' shoulders around the edges and muggin' something like I's a singing with Hahvud, Hahvud, in twebeen...
...Finally everybody yelled Hahvud and Hahvud and flagged red waves and I was floored so I leaned on the tire so they could all get out over me. I had a grand rest...
...Harvard has given him this unique attitude or whether he had it with him when he reached Cambridge, is difficult to determine. But it certainly exists. Perhaps its essence is best expressed in the story of the Harvard alumnus who is quoted as saying: "The charge that we of Hahvud are snobbish is absolutely untrue. Why, the year I rowed on the crew, I knew every man in the boat except two or three who sat away down in the stern...