Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Competition of a highly developed sort has been introduced into the business of endowment fund campaigns. The old order changeth and the prosaic pleas, "give for alma mater", and "for the interests of higher education", bow before the potency of an appeal to the sporting instinct. Stipulations and conditions involving mathematical gymnastics come not single handed but in troops, forming a kind of geometrio progression, as the Law School Fund swells. Competitive giving pays best...
...which for once had other than an intellectual goal. Strawberry shortcake and--well, lots of other things, but mostly strawberry shortcake filled his mind. He had tasted what is commonly placed on sale under this name, tasted it in almost every subterranean ordinary or clattering cafeteria which the usual order of his life forces him to frequent...
...Blue last fall over the new Eli course, but which displayed the strength of the Crimson teams. Over the Charles River course in 1925 W. L. Tibbetts '26 led R. G. Luttman '28 and E. C. Haggerty '27 across the finish line and the one-two three order of those runners brought the Crimson a total of 20 points, while Yale tralled with 47, and Princeton with 66. Last fall Smith and Briggs of Yale showed the pack home, but J. L. Reid '29, Haggerty and Leslie Flaksman '29 followed in that order immediately on the heels of the Blue...
...many years ago," he continued, "the Seniors here at Harvard would not even speak to the Freshmen, and as for looking at them, that was unheard of. Why, I remember when the Freshmen even stepped off the narrow side-walks in order to let Seniors pass. Do you think they would do that now? If so, you don't know the younger generation. I shall never forget how the poor Freshmen used to be treated down at Red Top (you know I have been steward down there ever since I have been connected with the Varsity Club). The players...
...charge of the petition, the declared that there had not been a sufficient number of signatures to permit the submission of the petition, declared that there had not been a sufficient number of signatures to permit the submission of the petition to President Lowell this spring in order to permit the completion of the new dining hall next year...