Word: harvardmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps not a majority, or even a significant minority of Harvardmen came to this school to watch Williams play baseball, but there are a few. Their general reaction is similar to that of Johnny Pesky: "I feel awful...
Sources close to the Yale police said that they were quite angry towards the Yalie Daily for having made Yale's finest look foolish. All in all, it was thought by Harvardmen a bright spot in an otherwise uneventful...
...buoyant beat" of U.S. brass bands. Recalls Putzi: "I had Hitler fairly shouting with enthusiasm. 'That's it, Hanfstaengl, that is what we need for the movement, marvelous,' and he pranced up and down the room like a drum majorette." The "Rah, rah, rah!" refrain of Harvardmen, by Putzi's account, became the thunderous "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!" of the Brownshirt demonstrations. Storm Trooper bands blared their goose-step rhythms with a between-halves unison. Such Nazi slogans as Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer were patterned on the effective use of catch phrases...
...John Fell, Khan is a member of Harvard's exclusive Hasty Pudding Club and a straight A student who majors in Oriental history and grinds hard. "He doesn't throw his weight or his dough around," says one of his classmates. In fact, to some other Harvardmen he was just a "nice guy whose name is Cohen or Kahn or something like that...
...buildings, most built around the turn of the century, ceilings are falling, stairways have started to pull away from the walls. Window casements are rotting, beams sagging. In the Broadway school, the Harvardmen noted that "classroom floors vibrate when walked upon." Some of the windows that lead to the fire escapes in the Prospect school are either screened or nailed shut; Middle Street and Pidge schools have no fire escapes at all. Six schools have no sprinkler system. Of the Cottage school the Harvardmen warned: "Any internal fire that would cause the collapse of the wooden staircases could trap children...