Word: linking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After all, the policy of having Seniors room in the Yard is an attempt to perpetuate traditions and to preserve as much as possible the atmosphere of an earlier Harvard. With Massachusetts added to Hollis, Stoughton, and Holworthy as a place of student residence another link is forged to the elusive past; and by a return to its old function Massachusetts helps to make the western quadrangle what it has often been termed--the heart of the University...
...host of customs and traditions by which their undergraduate days were ruled. Like the Hand of Death and the Laws of the Medes and Persians, they were steadfast, unmovable, always present to remind the newcomer of the whims and fancies of his predecessors, and to serve as a connecting link between the young generation and the old. When a tradition is broken or a custom allowed to fall into disuse, something very close to the spirit of the college is taken away...
...imagines, will the laboring pianist who plays the Wedding March during the death of the heroine. But for those children of Old Nassau--past, present, and future--for whom the rolling smoke cloud has been both a memory and a promise, the edict means the snapping of one more link in the connecting chain...
They included three separate and unsuccessful attempts to link Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) to "wild parties" in California, Hawaii, and Arizona...
...historical novel has performed an enormous service to the study of history," he said, "and the moving picture has still greater opportunities to link the facts of history to the environment and atmosphere of the epoch. The acrobatic portrait of the old English hero in the moving-picture, Robin Hood,' is the type of danger which the moving-picture industry runs...