Word: harvardman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Award commemorates George Burroughs 1640, the only Harvardman to be burned as a witch...
Rhodes scholarships for study at Oxford were four years old in 1907 when the Pennsylvania selection committee chose a Harvardman with top honors but a black skin. In hot protest. Southern winners bearded the trustees in London, but Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes had clearly provided that no one be "qualified or disqualified on account of his race or religious opinions." Off to Oxford went Alain Locke, the first U.S. Negro Rhodesman. who was a noted philosophy professor at Howard University before his death nine years ago. Not until last week had any other U.S. Negro won a Rhodes scholarship...
...Harvard makes a Harvardman, and Yale a Yalie, is one of those questions that really has no answer, save of the kind propounded in monstrous social relations theses. But a few of the concrete differences between the two institutions are not quite this murky, and also rather intriguing. In particular, there the difference between the Harvard House and the Yale College...
Principal Eliphalet ("Elephant") Pearson learned them just that when he opened the school with 13 boys shortly before George Washington marched out of Valley Forge. A hefty Harvardman, Tyrant Pearson ruled by rod and God. His awed charges, including Josiah Quincy, 6, a future Harvard president, paid $10 a year and toiled from dawn to dusk. On the school seal, Paul Revere engraved Finis Origine Pendet, a Calvinistic commercial meaning: "One's end depends on one's origin." More hopefully, Phillips took it to mean: "Well begun is half done." George Washington thought so well of the school...
...million), he publicly lambastes the vulgar sell ("When we load the television screen with arrows running around people's stomachs, we are boring the public") and the oversell ("When we plaster five different commercial messages right after one another at station-break time, we are boring the public"). Harvardman ('19) Cunningham gets away with such blunt talk because admen admire him as one of the great copywriters of all time. Among his notable creations: Chesterfield's "Blow some my way," which came along as women took up smoking in earnest, and the campaign that stressed the cleanliness...