Word: hod
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adolescence, he astonished the citizenry by setting a derailed horsecar back on its tracks. Yet his parents, until that day, had been sceptical of his abilities. "There's men in old Ireland could break you in two with a slap of their hand," his father, a wizened hod-carrier, had told him. His mother had intended him for the priesthood...
...influx of the football men has resulted in a shifted line-up. Captain Crosby is back at his old position on the defence, but Hammond will not go on the ice at the start of the game. Since the Boston Hockey Club contest a week ago in which Hod- der was slated as playing at right defence, the 1925 Freshman captain has been working with the forwards. During his period of action last Friday he frequently moved up to the offense, but tonight will be the first time he has been regularly assigned to the position of right wing...
...such an event, perhaps the stigma of being silent is not so great, after all. Certainly there is not much of a fine art in doing what the veriest hod-carrier could do. Yet sometimes, while reading Addison, or Lamb, or Carlyle or Coleridge--or Holmes, there comes the wish that all this knowledge and mental stimulation that is being showered upon Cambridge with virtually every lecture hour could be used with enjoyable results outside of class-rooms and the covers of blue-books. Then really could he who prices himself on his "cleverness" stand or fall on solid merit...