Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controversy and figured prominently in the christening of the Crimson. An editorial in one of the 1875 numbers disparaged magenta as the College's symbol and affirmed that "historically there was no doubt that crimson was the Harvard color." The Magenta fought hard to retain its name, but a mass meeting in Holden Chapel voted magenta out and crimson in. With its next issue, the Magenta became the Harvard Crimson...
...surplice had burst into flame from a nearby candle. The dean looked startled, but stood quietly as Leighton's quick-thinking Vicar S. John Forrest hurried over and began beating him on the back with a hymnbook. In a moment the crisis was over. As the solemn Requiem Mass swept sonorously on ("Yet, good Lord, in grace complying, rescue me from fires undying"), Dean Wheeler hurried out to don a new surplice. "I felt unusually warm," he explained later, "but I didn't know I was on fire until the Vicar beat...
Problems of administration make some of these restrictions necessary. Interhouse privileges at lunch, for instance, while theoretically desirable, would result in mass descents on Adams House on cold, rainy days, and even in the warmth of spring lazy science majors would seek out the closest dining hall. Major migrations of this sort, which depend on the vagaries of the weather and of student programs, would make an administrative tangle out of all proportion to their actual value to students. But interhouse between the Union and the House is another matter. With veterans making up a large proportion of Yardlings, friendship...
...trapezoidal dining room with its glittering candlebra and bleak yellow walls doesn't supply as much inward contentment as what comes off the serving line. When all is said and done, Leverett probably stands first gastronomically among the five Houses connected with the mass-production line of the University kitchen...
...scarabs and other trinkets and taboos. . . . And who are the unbelievers? They are, among others, people who do not believe in survival after death, who do not believe in the resurrection of the body or in the infallibility of the Pope ... in the sacrificial and propitiating nature of the Mass. They are the unbelievers, the infidels . . . and, I suppose, also the damned in Msgr. Sheen's classification...