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...walked in the ways of the world and had returned to do honor to Andover. Among them were Thomas Cochran, partner in J. P. Morgan and Company; Arthur Stanley Pease, president of Amherst College; Walter Prichard Eaton, dramatic critic, who told in verse about his first arrival at Andover "moist with maternal tears...
...tang in the air, we take long night rides through the black and silver of a moonlit countryside. Five minutes from the city, in any of three directions, we ride among irrigated fields cf alfalfa or cotton, orchards of citrus or other fruits, emerald grape vines, whence a cool moist breath rises in the summer air. . . . THELMA B. MILLER (MRS. Ross C. MILLER) Bakersfield, Calif...
Still, there is a certain glamour attached to these concoctions. They may not have fulfilled their purpose and their perpetrators in many cases are now out in the cold once more seeking lodging, but for a brief moment they have shown that the undergraduate imagination is quite as moist as it should be,--perhaps a little more so. Quite possibly in the not so far distant future from the very imaginations which ferreted out these outrageous appellations will have gained for themselves the immortality which was not theirs this time. Theirs will be the glory of giving to a breathless...
Harvard Men is Traditionally "Moist...
Whether Harvard men really are wet or not I cannot venture to say because I have never been able to find out what the word meant. The legendary Harvard man is rather "moist" (a belittling term), but that is because the originators of the numerous stories had good imaginations. Actually he seems to know quite a little about life a considerable amount to be candid. Whether he is right or not is nobody's concern. If song and story were infallible estimations of Harvard mentality, the chances are that he would be a trifle mistaken. And at this point...