Word: halcyons
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Build-Up "Brekkers." In halcyon pre-war days, Oxford's summer term was one continuous build-up toward Eights Week. Six weeks before the event, the 23 men's colleges picked their eight-man crews with the care bestowed on the selection of a Cabinet. To add muscle and weight, the rowing hearties were subjected to a rigorous Oxford training combining exercise with heavy eating, such as "brekker" of porridge, fish, steak, huge racks of toast and mounds of marmalade - all washed down with draughts of strong, college-brewed beer...
State Agriculture Commissioners piled up the gloom. Samples: > New Hampshire: Production will be off generally 5% to 12% from 1942; the quota for potatoes was set at 40% over 1942, a year whose halcyon weather conditions will probably not be repeated this year...
...Parity calculations make the farmer 36% better off than in 1910-14, which to professional farm leaders were halcyon years...
...contests will be lacking. Because of transportation regulations laid down by the ODT, the Cadets are not accompanying their team, and, even though most of the officers and men connected with the University will march instead, much of the pomp and circumstance characteristic of Harvard-Army games in the halcyon past will not be present this afternoon...
Also paralleling that halcyon era is the appearance of a man whom Coach John Chase rates as the best Harvard prospect, since Austie, first of the famous Crimson hockey Hardings. He is Captain Dick Mechem, a St. Paul's alumnus. Mechem's play has sparked the Yardlings in their every contest...