Word: harvardman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average Cliffdweller is basically much too lazy to pack up and take off for a whole weekend. The so-called unfeminine aspects of Radcliffe girls--green book bags and Knee socks, for instance--are actually a defense mechanism against the strain of looking beautiful all the time for the Harvardman. Since both the Cambridge citizenry and the 'Cliffe administration frown on Bermuda shorts in class, girls achieve the same effect by neglecting to comb their haid or to put on lipstick. Actually this attitude has its benefits. A Harvard junior reported how shocked he was at first to have girls...
...costumes of the Revolution, handed out coffee and cake, and the 20-piece Fife and Drum Corps from Stony Creek, in sleeveless red jackets, black leggings, tricorn hats and fawn-colored breeches, played 18th-century music. One of the stories-doubtless apocryphal-circulating about the Hale homestead concerned a Harvardman who visited the place recently, and, after examining everything closely, approached a hostess with a question. "Who," he asked, "was Nathan Hale...
...could not let Mr. Perry's remarks about the CRIMSON go by without comment. I believe that you are providing the coverage that the Harvardman wants, and that is the important thing. We freshmen receive the Yardling, in which is reported all the freshman scores. I will gladly give my copies to Mr. Perry, if he so desires...
When Winston Churchill accepted an invitation to speak at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949, a Harvardman asked John Ely Burchard, now M.I.T.'s dean of humanities and social studies: "How did you persuade Winston to speak to those steam fitters of yours?" As Burchard well knew, there was a mite of truth in the joke, in spite of mighty efforts already made to broaden the humanities curriculum. Was the nation's top technical school still giving its students too narrow an education? Last week the M.I.T. faculty formally approved a new experiment that may eventually answer...
...accommodate important events at a pace "perhaps five times as great." It is worlds apart from the comfortable tradition that pervades his former Cambridge office. In fact the only fixture that would look quite at home in either place is Conant himself, for he is among other things a Harvardman, and the great versatility that goes with that label will likely stand him in good stead no matter where his political fortunes lead him.WIDE WORLD PHOTOCONANT and West German Chancellor KONRAD ADENAUER (left) drink a toast in wine to the signing of an agreement which restores the postwar treaty...