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...Harvardmen might object to this possessive definition, but even the most conscientious objector could not deny the importance of both colleges in life at Harvard. Radcliffe's eminent position was even proclaimed nationally two years ago, when The Saturday Evening Post entitled an article: "They're Wearing Lipstick at Harvard...
...H.A.A. now revels in its unchecked sway, but a day of reckoning shall come. For a breed of Harvardmen will grow up, never having tasted that curious elixir--the blend of fall air, football, and good scotch. When the new alumnus gets slowly soused of a Saturday afternoon, he will care not one whit whether Crimson is in triumph flashing. As interested alumni gradually become extinct, the Harvard farm system will dwindle. Within a decade the Red Beast will again be no more than a small pink rodent...
...Wind and rough water on the Thames made dusty going for the Oxford and Cambridge crews. But with the help of two Americans (Harvardmen Phil Du-Bois and R.A.G. Monks), the Light Blues of Cambridge stroked to the finish line 16 lengths in front...
...known as the "Harvard Annex." It was not until 1894 that Mrs. Agassiz finally persuaded the Massachusetts legislature to grant her a charter ("I'd like to do anything that lady wants me to do," said one legislator after her impassioned speech). But, even by that time, some Harvardmen still retained their doubts. Huffed Litterateur Barrett Wendell, when asked if his daughters would go to Radcliffe: "My daughters, sir, I hope, are ladies." Snapped the equally literary Charles Townsend Copeland, when asked if he would give a course in Argument...
...students of the seventh century and of the 200 years which followed were much like the Harvardmen of today in their dislike of and revolt against petty regulations. As a result the history of religion here during these two centuries is largely a history of revolt...