Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems inconceivable that there has ever been a more exciting Harvard-Yale soccer game than the one played yesterday. The Crimson, outplayed for most of the first half, rallied for one vitally important score in the last fifteen seconds of the third period, and then held on through the final quarter...
...Service, with headquarters in Harvard Square, states that its purpose is to provide American students with "comprehensive and objective data regarding the Communist-sponsored Seventh World Youth Festival." Next summer's Festival will be the first ever held outside the Iron Curtain...
Then, when the punchee must choose one among several invitations if he is an especially desirable prospect, the Club whose dinner he attends may feel reasonably sure he will accept if elected. Voting is held the following night, and those who escape the blackballs are notified of their election at 8 a.m. the next morning. They must accept or refuse by noon, and in the intervening hours the club members wait anxiously behind the front door to greet the accepting sophomores (outside on the steps, for they are not yet official members...
...kick off the campaign Curley held a banquet, and invited all to speak. The professor, Eugene Wambaugh, began enthusiastically to tell the Boston audience that they could not nominate Smith, since the South would never accept a Catholic. As an observer noted, "A look of bewilderment and chagrin crossed Curley's face..." He got the professor off the platform as soon as he could...
...also during that term that Harvard held its Tercentenary Commencement. There was no choice but to invite the Governor; and he put on a very fine show. Consistent in minute detail to the precedent of the colonial governors (which had not been observed since Harvard's Centennial), Curley heralded his arrival with a massed band, an escort of fully-armed lancers, the National Guard, trumpet sounds, bugle calls, the beating of drums, the shooting of guns, and the cheers of a mixed collection of Boston Irish such as Harvard Yard had never imagined. He reminded the assembly that the last...