Word: restful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...life that blossoms forth for the townie. We all happen to meet the students in the same way. It's the same story. . . . "I was down by the river or walking down the square . . . when the most adorable fellow came over to me and said" . . . You know the rest. Why go on? . . . And after she meets one she meets them all. . . . It's the same story year in and year out. "My last year's roommate left this telephone number," or "I've heard so much about you, gosh, I don't know a soul here, I'm so lonesome...
When the Big Green athletes swoop down from the hills of Hanover, or the Sons of Old Eli invade America's Number One University, hospitable Harvard furnishes them a quiet night's rest in some comfortable Boston hotel. After a night's sleep that may or may not have been passed to the accompaniment of clanging street cars and vociferously tooting taxis, the out-of-town athletes must trudge, bag in hand, through the baffling intricacies of Boston's subway system before finally reaching their destination. All this would be changed if Harvard had a dormitory unit which could house...
...that men are necessarily chosen on the basis of a distored, perverted set of values. Perhaps the millenium will arrive when Freshmen awake from their indifference, when they desire democracy earnestly enough to instil a genuine spirit into the forms. Until then, may the last class election at Harvard rest in peace...
...that high-school typists often misspelled easy words (such as "on," "which") because they had to make awkward reaches and hurdles with their fingers to type them. He also found that in normal writing typists struck keys in the home row (second from the bottom, where the fingers naturally rest) only 32% of the time, that the left hand did 47% more work than the right. Sample one-hand word: greatest...
...opening chukker, Coach Chester Sargent's riders easily chalked up four goals, but every point in the rest of the game was bitterly fought. The home team's terrific onslaughts in the last two chukkers pulled them close up to a threatening position, but Captain Ben Forbes's cohorts heroically managed to keep their lead...