Word: hob
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Provide Clod-Shoes at the Entrance. Some students derive such subtle pleasure from hearing the reading hall resound with the click-click of their hob-nails on the marble edgings that we ought not to enjoin them to walk softly, but, rather, we ought to furnish them with clod-hoppers, the more to indulge that subtle pleasure...
...solution, I believe, may be partly found in the suggestion that I have offered above. I do not advocate any hob-nobbing with professors, but I do plead for more Sunday afternoons at President Lowell's, more Sunday evenings at Professor Hurlbut's, more Monday afternoons at Professor Lowes's, and above all, for a still more informal, intelligent Faculty tea system. HAROLD A. EHRENSPERGER 1G. In the Alumni Bulletin...
...unlikely that when Mayor Andrew-James Peters of Boston spent a night as a hob in the Wayfarers' Lodge some of his bedfellows were Reds who had threatened in pen and ink to have his life's blood. "You will be shot Friday night at 12," wrote one of the avengers. Peters had made brave war upon the Bolsheviki, silk-stockinged and stocking less. Yet he seems to have slept like a babe, though there were enemies of society snoring around him as well as good Americans down on their luck. Was it Peters of Harvard or Peters...