Word: harbor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Prior to 1858 the notion of a distinctive color for each university had not been thought of in American institutions. In the spring of that year, however, a regatta was to be held on the harbor and six enterprising University students, among them President Eliot, then an instructor in the University, secured a "shell" of rather ponderous bulk and steered by the bow oar with the aid of a foot attachment. On the day of the regatta the Harvard oarsmen discovered that fourteen crews were entered in the race and after a consultation they decided that some sort of insignia...
...usual, activities will start early on the day of the picnic. The whole class will assemble and will go to the wharf in a special car, where a ferryboat will meet them to take them out to an island in the harbor. The picnickers will be supplied with caps in the class colors, horns, badges, and tin cups, as well as swimming tights for those who wish to take part in the swimming program...
...fraternity houses and dorms and rooming houses harbor many erstwhile students who soon will be travelling homeward toward doting daddies. When a considerable calamity visits any community, there comes a bountiful crop of satisfying, but short-lived resolutions of "Never again." Within a month, the whole crowd of resolutions go a-glimmering, and the community tumbles back into the rut which leads to disaster...
...first boat has necessitated a general shift in the make up of the eight and is a serious setback, especially since the Pennsylvania race is only three weeks off. In reference to Yale's unfortunate condition Coach Professor Abbott said that the coaches had never seen the harbor so rough and seldom had there been so many cases of sickness at one time...
...nation stands for liberty, indeed, and is only too glad to harbor the distressed peoples that have flocked to her shores. But it is our right when we extend them the privileges of our democracy to ask that they become in return true and loyal Americans. We are not willing to make the United States a hot-house for all the seeds of foreign discontent, as it has occasionally seemed in danger of becoming...