Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Conant explained that he was only a "second-year man" himself, inasmuch as he had just joined the law faculty as an ex-officio member last fall. He then took the opportunity to remind the newcomers from universities and colleges all over the country that Harvard was not founded as a Divinity School, contrary to the popular belief. It was founded by a group of Puritans as an institution to carry on the work of colleges they knew in England, in particular Emmanuel College at Cambridge University which many of them attended...
...benefit of those who have allowed the first three installment of the story of Abner, the model candidate to fall on deaf ears, let us remind you that tonight, at 7.30 o'clock in the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street, the first competition of this fall opens to members of the Sophomore and Junior classes. More explicitly, the Editorial competition is open to Juniors and the portals of the other three departments will be thrown open to ambitious members of the Class...
...your reply to Reader Ley printed in the Sept. 3 issue, you remind him that Amherst is one of the U. S. college towns without a railroad station. For many years Amherst has had two railroads serving the town. One the Central Vermont's line to New London and the other the Boston & Maine's "Central Massachusetts Division." The latter line I am informed has been abandoned, but the Central Vermont still carries...
...solemn face he will tell innumerable stories, never repeating himself, about how he is held down by his wife "Gussie,"?daughter of the late great Editor Henry Woodfin Grady of the Atlanta Constitution, burier of the bloody shirt, prophet of the "New South." There his friends will again remind him that he looks like Andy Gump; there he will play golf (very creditably) with Bobby Jones. There he will again make quips like the one made in the showers after a disastrous round: "Well, there is one thing certain: I can take as good a bath as any member...
...Ovila Dionne, who forgot to shave, wandered about, weeping: "Five of them. . . . I'm the sort of man they should keep in jail. . . . No bigger than my thumb . . . five more! ... I am not strong." Unsympathetic were his rustic French-Canadian friends, who chaffed him roundly, not neglecting to remind him that Ovila means ''little...