Word: placing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said, 'He appears to be the possessor of but two adjectives, "bully" and "rotten."' When I asked him about X's Class Day oration, he answered, 'Robust commonplace.' Of a graduate who had written somewhat irresponsibly about Harvard, he observed, 'He is not a scientific person.' Of the place to which women were relegated when waiting for books in the University Library, he said, 'A pen is provided for them...
...summer home in the woods of Plymouth, Massachusetts, I got a letter from Mr. E. B. Barton, a young graduate, whose diploma, testifying that he had received the degree of A.B., had been eaten by rats in Wadsworth House. He petitioned for another diploma in its place. As I knew that the President's objection to duplicating a diploma was almost Draconian in its rigidity, I had scarcely a shred of hope for Mr. Barton; but I did write to Mr. Eliot, then at Mount Desert, suggesting that, since Wadsworth House was a College building, the rats might be regarded...
Today the coonskin of Dartmouth takes the place in the Stadium of the blue-grey ranks of the Army. The stiffness of ordered regimentation characteristic of the military gives way to the informal enthusiasm of a college released on one of its biggest holidays. One doesn't have to make an effort to welcome Dartmouth to the Yard; her students are not honored guests who are to be greeted with formality and assiduously introduced to Harvard. Two Colleges as close together as Harvard and Dartmouth don't need an introduction; and with customary Harvard indifference, formalities may be waved aside...
...late success in his father's (?) chosen field, but I swung twice and connected while he swung twice and missed so we called it even. He did tell me, however, that a large pool of Green "long green" had been formed in the Law School which he was to place at his discretion. I covered a part of this so that I can safely say that Harvard will score at least three touchdowns...
...what I do want to say, and say strongly is that I think these stories about Harvard and Princeton proselyting athletes are wrong. Why shouldn't a baseball player sell peanuts on Soldiers Field during the fall? Why should that place Harvard in the position of being accused of subsidizing athletes...