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...three hundred years, has become skilled in the art of frustrating chicanery. Bills arrive promptly; and rigid, relentless machinery is put into operation for their payment. Erring students, tottering on the verge of probation, find all their past cuts carefully noted at the Dean's Office. And, when crafty Jawn Harvard is proctoring, his eyes are sharper than a hawk's from centuries of administering examinations to some of the cleverest brains America has produced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Faculty Profile | 3/13/1947 | See Source »

...twenty-first year of operation, the University Theatre has become as much a part of the Harvard scene as the statue of Old Jawn himself in the Yard. Ever since the first and only movie house in Harvard Square opened its doors on October 29, 1926, many times ten thousand men of Harvard have whiled away their hours with its flickers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 11/27/1946 | See Source »

...Gamble, lamenting the fact that only 0.58 children were born to the average member of the Class of 1931 within nine years of snagging the sheepskin, sees more young Kallikaks than Jawn Harvards being born and finds that the rate of self-elimination among Harvard alumni is accelerating. Dr. Gamble does not mention the size of his own family...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Don't Gamble With Harvard Future; Raise the Birth Rate | 2/19/1946 | See Source »

...quote me on this," he added over his shoulder. "Dakos of victory may come high, but with Jawn and Harlow together again, we'll pull...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ, | Title: Hu Flung Huey Flings 'Em | 11/30/1945 | See Source »

...around the Business School, latest reports show. The new group, all in uniform, are called the "Black Ties" and are led by a domineering little man named Tito Bizal. At various hours of the day their haunting battle song sweeps up through the Square, and the green statute of Jawn Harvard gets greener as it hears...

Author: By W. M. Cousine and T. X. Cronin, S | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/1/1944 | See Source »

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