Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weekly heap of dirty clothes is a problem that varying Harvard men solve in varying ways. Some carefully pack their laundry in neat cardboard cases, lug them down to the Post Office, and then spend weeks in squalor and grime waiting for the return mail. Other pile their clothes in the washbasin and alternately serub and sneeze until a dazzling brightness is attained. But most undergraduates shoulder or dispatch their wash to Cambridge laundries which charge up to $18 to fray cuffs off of shirtsleeves...
After intermission, Alfred Howard and Robert Matson joined the pianists in Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. It was clearly the big attraction of the evening; in fact, I thought Sanders Theater would fall in a heap from the applause when it was over. Just how much of the work's impact comes from powerful writing and how much from the force of the medium is hard to tell on first hearing. It seemed to me that much of the percussion part was only reinforcement, especially in the first movement. The two elements have a clearer relation...
Crimson track and field men finished sixth Saturday night in the second annual Heptagonal Games which saw nine meet records fall as Army emerged on top of the 10 team heap with 5 1/2 first places and 54 5/6 points. Yale came in second with 44 points, Cornell third with 27, Princeton fourth with 20, Pennsylvania fifth with 16, and Harvard sixth with...
...chores. A yearling bull had caught his right foreleg in his rope, and Farmer Plaisted shoved him around with his shoulder and tugged at the rope until the foot was free. He inspected the 14 milk cows, loaded two wheelbarrows with manure and dumped them on the dung heap outside. After cleaning out the horses' stall, he called it a day, apologizing for his lack of energy...
...greatly increased college enrollments. His remarks ended with a typical Gannon snapper: "Instead of accepting more & more as the number of applicants increase, we intend to screen our students with more & more care . . . Unless we have this type of aristocracy . . . our Jeffersonian democracy will soon be a Russian rubble heap...