Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoge, Yale '27: "Metropolitan interests diversify the social aspirations of the undergraduate body, causing a phlegmatic torpor in undergraduate social life...
...other words, though this life is one that can easily be read at one sitting, it should be taken as a novel--not as an accurate estimate of Rome or Caesar. There are, it is true, very few actual misstatements of fact, but one whole side of the picture is totally omitted, the emphasis is misplaced, the significance distorted...
W.F.C. Guest, Yale '27,: Overemphasis in studies is the main fault in my opinion. There is too serious a view of life at Harvard which detracts especially from the quality of the football team...
Josiah Marvel Jr. Yale '27: "There is too much organization and not enough informality in the life at Harvard. I have also noticed that a man's club seems to mean more to him than the College, which may or may not be a good thing...
Each college has its "barge", a houseboat where the men can change, and from which the crews normally start. The barges, numbering about 20, are moored together broadside along the river bank. His college barge will play a large part in the life of the successful carsman...