Word: harvardized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth is, more than a little has gone on right under the Vagabond's very eyes and from his lofty domains he has never failed to take it all in. A circumstance which has made him unique as a councillor extraordinary to Harvard...
Since 1906, to take The Evening World's starting point, the point score is even more Crimson than the list of victories. Harvard, that is to say, rolled up 183 points, Yale only 110. And two years Harvard administered such a drubbing to her ancient adversary as has rarely been recorded against a first-line team. The scores were 36-0 and 41-0. Since football has been football she has shown her superiority over Yale so markedly that only a few could fail to notice it. Yet these few, it would seem, include most of the sports writers...
...magic of the figure on the Yale totem pole, which is a bulldog. Either of these explanations is plausible and worth thinking about. Our own belief, however, is that the real explanation is to be found in the atmosphere of gentility which is thought to hang over the Harvard campus. Gentility, to the average American, suggests a lot of sissies: it is quite incompatible with physical prowess. So it is natural that the sports writers should pick Yale, where the boys are supposed to have hair on their chests and to eat red meat. The New York World
...many years the Vagabond has dwelt peacefully in his exclusive quarters away up in Memorial Tower. Much has happened since he first moved up, bag, baggage, and piano. Just in the last few years he has stood calmly at his narrow window to watch many a momentous piece of Harvard news in the making...
...well as if it were yesterday, the Vagabond can see Harvard Square as it seethed with angry rioting students. The resounding thuds of the officers' night sticks, still echo in his ears and drift away to mingle with the sounds of strained intercollegiate relations that once burst forth ringing in his ears far louder than the traditional cry of Reinhart which occasionally floats up from the Yard on the night...