Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team that has had to start from scratch, after three years of hit-or-miss or even no competition, under a coach who is fathering a Harvard links squad for the first time, and challenged by weather that Coach Bill Barclay unqualifiedly calls "plain miserable,"--for such a team, a perfect scorecard is nothing short of miraculous...
...becomes comforted by the supposition that a vital piece of music (and by implication a vital artist) is bound to register favorably some day, no matter what the critics say. It is no easy task to balance this theory with some stark and fully documented facts presented by Miss Olga Samaroff. To get booking with a decent manager these days, in a country full of budding Rubinsteins and Heifetzes, a young artist must have the good word from New York's critics. Likewise, the composer, for instance, of a new opera. No rave notices equals no more performances...
...They say cleanliness is next to Godliness, but in there its next to impossible," a pretty miss was heard to mutter as she emerged from the door marked "Women" and rejoined her Harvard...
When the show starts tonight, seated in the first row will be J. Jay Hughes '48, who with an astute eye recognized "Miss Juno," and won for his pains a date with Ray Nichols, Miss Massachusetts...
Stepping across the Yard, Vag took a short fix on the Mem Hall clock and suddenly ducked aside, just in time to miss a Radcliffe troop coming the other way. Such happy looks on their faces, he mused--and then almost dropped his pipe. Of course, he thought with a start, the Emancipation Proclamation was in effect--co-education was here to stay. In his daze, he narrowly cleared another covey of skirts and sweaters. He could distinctly hear the 1896 Gate squeaking its hinges in disgust and any time now, the Mem Hall bell would start up a dirge...