Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...song leader of the cheering section," Reed wrote at the age of 29, "I had the supreme blissful sensation of swaying 2000 voices in great crashing choruses during the big football games...
...this spirit which impelled Reed, at the end of the Second Communist international in Moscow in August, 1920, to lift his team captain--in this case Lenin--on top of his shoulders...
Graduate of the Class of 1910, world famous by the age of 26, and dead at 32, Reed lived hard, and it was only when he was fatally stricken with typhus that he gave up fighting for the Bolsheviks as he had fought for Harvard, Pancho Villa, and the Socialists...
...Reed was impetuous--a romantic who saw a beauty in fighting for something even if everyone else was against him. But at the same time, he craved popularity...
...friends had expected his impulsiveness to vanish, but he always cherished the memory of those moments, when, in front of the Harvard stands, Cheerleader Jack Reed could summon help to "dash old Eli's hopes...