Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...says: "Often the greater part of the student's day, aside from classes is spent in some sort of meeting, or preparing for them, meetings of departmental clubs, with programs, papers, and refreshments (someone must make arrangements for these things) or committee meetings over student government, to mention but two possibilities...
...read for pleasure. But few of the "new" books give it. The books I mention have been (to me at least, a normal old human) both enjoyable and profitable...
...been disputed, but is now established as a historical fact. Newhaven and Princeton were the homes of the Bulldog and Tiger totems respectively, and these wild bands fought incessantly over the ground that had been formerly consecrated to learning. Evidence of totems at Cambridge is lacking;--there is frequent mention of a Crimson College, but this refers to a Catholic school for girls. (The name originates in a local euphemism for the "scarlet woman"). The remains of a large library may also account for the non-existence of a totem...
Honorable mention was at the game time awarded to Lowell Pierson Beverage '25 of Dorchester, and to James MacLellan Hawkes '26 of East Lynn...
Both these phenomena--for such they truly are at Cambridge--seem almost too trivial to mention. But they are significant in that they indicate a willingness on the part of students at Harvard University to model their manners and customs after preparatory schools and small-town colleges. Harvard's much-touted "individuality" has left its mark on students for nearly three centuries. But if it is now to yield so readily to the onslaughts of provincial collegians, the Student Council might just as well declare it at an end, rechristen the Yard, the Campus, and make the Freshmen start wearing...