Word: middlewesterners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their rally held just before the Yale game, the freshmen gathered in large numbers under the Union antlers, shouted with middlewestern vigor, and demonstrated an enthusiasm which bore tangible fruit in a 31-6 victory over Yale. As a result there have been suggestions that the pep meeting, having had such salutary effect upon the first year athletes, might well be repeated for the benefit of the varsity...
There is one salient fact which stands out of all that is being reported and written of the middlewestern farm revolt; some farmers are willing to sell at the current price level, and are being restrained from doing so only by the most inflammatory and militant devisements of their fellows. The gospel preached by the pay leaders of the movement, I am aware, is in direct opposition to this. Their argument runs that the NRA is intolerable, because it is running agriculture into the ground and making it impossible for any farmer to retain his solvency, but if this were...
...obvious conclusion to be drawn is that the fraternity system is passing. Taxes have grown more heavy; the revenue from rich alumni has diminished. The Greeks must either become so exclusive as to be a negligible clique, or they must, as already in several large middlewestern universities, turn themselves into mere dormitories open to all. The current depression aided by such awkward schisms as that now opening at Dartmouth, will do much to hurry the transition...
...moneychangers have fled from the temples, leaving official notices plastered to the front gates. Mounting uneasiness among individual and corporate depositors led to runs upon and closures of middlewestern banks, and to such a strain upon other parts of the banking system, especially in the-East, that similar protective measures became universally necessary. The superficiality of this explanation makes it peculiarly suitable for promulgation by bankers and a subsidized press. But to go just one step beyond this "lack of confidence" is to discover the utter incompetence and frequent dishonesty which have graced the laissez-faire operation of the American...
...comment if it were not for ideas and prejudices of which it is all too representative. The writer of the editorial is evidently a supersensitive young man and, like many supersensitive people, he is neither polite nor rational. In the first place he insuits a quite considerable body of Middlewestern Harvard men past and present. This we can forgive him on the score of what is, apparently, an over excitable adolescence. We are surprised, however, that even a Bostonian should have such highly romantic notions about our lineage. This writer seems surprisingly ignorant (for a young man of his type...