Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rest in preparation for the board graduate work, and partly to the necessity of earning the funds for that work. More recently the modern tendency to hurry has lead to a profound change. Men are entering the professional schools immediately after graduation, preferring to borrow the needed money and push themselves right through, rather than to wait and earn it by teaching. The present-day youth has no time to spend on stop-gaps...
...mile grind between Yale and M. I. T. According to comparative records Yale ought to win easily, as she has one of the best two-mile teams in the country, but M. I. T., strengthened by the return of Garvin Bawden, can be relied upon to push the Blue quartet, and there is the possibility of a record...
...Percival," asked Adolphus Smith-Blythe, the big m an of the College, captain of the Tiddledewink Team, Chairman of the "Committee to Make Freshmen Fool at Home," etc., as he sat sipping his afternoon cup of tea in the Union, the push button for the bell boy at his elbow, "What's the news today...
...have succeeded in "estranging the Metropolitan press," for the "New York Tribune," shuddering (in its 100 percent virility) at the thought of afternoon teas at Harvard, indulges in an editorial entitled "Cherchez les Femmes." For it is logical to assume that woman is at the bottom of the push buttons, the jam and toast and all the luxuries provided by the Union. As good as its word the "Tribune" traces the source of the evil from the tinkling tea-cups to 10 Garden street, which, as we all know is only "two blocks from the heart of the campus...
Beginning this week, a new system of bellboys and waiters will be installed in the Union, for the convenience of members. An electric push-button bell system is in operation, by which members may have refreshments and tobacco served to them in any part of the building, and at any time of day. The theatre ticket agency, located at the News Stand, will also be ready for business before the end of the week. Members may arrange to have tickets held, at a slight extra charge, which will be lower than other agencies. The best seats at all theatres will...