Word: parfit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world's, that there are no branches of Harvard's Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club in Germany. We do not know the life history of the estimable Michael, but we suspect him of having combined the best qualities of a bellicose pacifist with those of a "parfit gentil knight." Hence his devotees, with equal catholicity, carried to the pacifist students' meeting in the Harvard Yard last week banners bearing the slogans: "Down with war!" and "Down with peace!" To every attack on Harvard's R.O.T.C. a bugler of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club blew a shrill blast...