Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...coaches; it must originate from within the student body and from the athletes themselves. At present Harvard undergraduates are little disturbed by the action of any team-member in breaking training. Likewise the members of the tams are not particularly upset by the failure of a team-mate to meet the generally accepted provisions for keeping in the best of shape for victory...
Nine years ago, an energetic, middle-aged spinster who had fought the good fight for women's votes, who was a lieutenant in an ambulance unit but did not get to France, who was a good friend and committee-mate of many of Manhattan's ablest socialites, took up the profession of helping other women make money. Daughter of a well-to-do Kentucky family, since girlhood she had speculated in the stockmarket, at the height of the boom was said to have piled up $6,000,000 profits. As an investment adviser, well-recommended by many...
...gave her to his crack master, Roger Murray, hoping for many a broken record. On shore a cold dandy, on his quarterdeck Roger was a genius. Though he took chances against all the rules, he had never lost a spar. With him shipped his brother Will as first mate; also his youngest brother Hugh, shanghaied by mistake. Roger and Hugh were both in love with Mary de Peyster, but bashful Hugh had done nothing about it beyond carving the Sea Witch's figurehead into a portrait of her. Roger had popped the question, got the answer. Hugh...
Captain R. D. Fallon '33, will be entered in the 50-yard free-style, with either H. M. Howe '34, or E. P. Parker '34, as his running-mate. They will face Jennings, a veteran mainstay of the Lions. Jenning's best time is 34 3-5 seconds, which mark all three Harvard contestants have equalled at one time or another during the season. The 50-yard dash is expected to be perhaps the closest race...
...anything but scratch the mater, the course must embrace a longer period than the average college half-course. For it will take a full course to prevent at least half of the male population from acting their customary role of suckers when they select their mate...