Word: queerly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fight. They expect to make the trip to the field in a taily-ho, which will be used after the gaine to take the casualties to the infirmary. Ashamed to appear in public after their abominable carnpaign of fifth, the Mount Anburn Street, wastrels will be dressed in queer outlandish costumes. On the other hand, the CRIMSON will appear in neat back and white...
...queer sensation...
...favorite outdoor sports of summertime is doomed. Soon the aesthetic plaints of the motorist will be ended, for the loathsome billboard is going. The traveler must then confine his remarks to those queer flowers, that old house, or those funny people. On Sunday afternoons, when the clouds of gasoline smoke hide all these possible objects of observation, comments and curses must be reserved for the dust and the numbers of miles to the gallon. The art of conversation, which has been lagging since the days of Emerson and Holmes, seems about to suffer an extensive mutilation...
...queer psychology, which the Student Council attributes to Harvard undergraduates. Admitting for the moment that their cheering has been thoroughly unsatisfactory, the Council evidently believes that they can be made to bellow hoarsely and continuously by the trained antics of competitively selected cheer leaders. Instead of men who have won records of achievement on a half-dozen teams leading their classmates in a spontaneous burst of approval, the new plan provides for a quintet of expert dancers directing a trained chorus of "Rah-Rah-Boys". At least such is the ideal toward which the new plan tends...
...queer-twist in New Haven logic comes when President Angell reports that the average grades of Yale men's sons are two-tenths of one percent higher than the grades of sons of non-Yale men-Dartmouth, Princeton, or even Harvard, perhaps? It looks very much as if Yale were not confident of this margin of superiority. If the sons of Yale men are indeed better scholastically, why apply any other test or qualification than that of scholarship? If they are not, what is their particular merit, or what their usefulness to a center of scholarship? The issue was discussed...