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...lowing herds which have gladdened the eye of homesick Greek mountaineers in Cambridge from time immemorial, have come to be accepted as part of the setting like the green sacks of the first year Law men, or the chimneys of the power station which form the uprights of a possible H. But on Tuesday evening the herds cut loose and in the stampede for safety, which followed there was a charge on the Round-house without parallel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROUND-HOUSE RODEO | 2/1/1923 | See Source »

...always the burdened heart, the homesick heart...

Author: By Joseph Auslander, | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 1/5/1923 | See Source »

...days before universal athletics the pale and rickety "grind" may have existed. Now the man on the honor list is quite likely to have biceps like "the magnificent exaggerations of antique sculpture," and one seldom sees a pining professor unless it be in a Pullman, where he is homesick for his tennis or his golf. Health being assured, what shall our student study? What are the essential studies? Those that "have most surely produced the best results," the Dean tells us, are "mathematics and the classics, fundamental science, modern literature, and at least the elements of political economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 5/28/1921 | See Source »

...sends during the summer a letter of welcome, accompanied by a Harvard Handbook, or "Freshman Bible," as it is more commonly called. This is followed by a personal call on every Freshman after he arrives. An Information Bureau is maintained two weeks before registration, where men, some of them homesick, perhaps, may meet friends, read, write, leave their bags, procure pamphlets, maps, and find a room. Nearly 2000 rooms for students were listed by the Bureau this year, a remarkable number considering the housing shortage. Brooks House is, indeed, an all-the-year Information Bureau, where students come with...

Author: By W. I. Tibbetts, (SPECIAL ARTICLE FOR THE CRIMSON) | Title: DESCRIBE ACTIVITIES OF PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE | 1/18/1921 | See Source »

...ourselves in khaki. All classes are represented. It is entirely democratic in its personnel and in its spirit. It is an army to be proud of and to be cared for. It is far from home and it will not be strange if many of the boys become homesick-especially if the winter campaign settles down to a dreary siege in the trenches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 2/20/1918 | See Source »

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