Word: rheinhardt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summary inspection of the campus sent him into the marts of the Hub City in quest of a blue serge suit, a pair of harlequin glasses and a green cloth book-bag. . . . He knew enough not to call President Conant "Rheinhardt". . . . Nevertheless, it was impossible for him to find anyone whom he could call a friend. The one attempt he had made at approaching the man across the hall had been coldly, yet courtesouly, rebuffed with a short "Have we been introduced?" . . . The youth began to despair of ever making the slightest dent in campus affairs or being elected...
...What's worse, 1946 knows nothing of the University's traditions." The day might even dawn, he thought with sorrow, when a Harvard man might not know who a Yardling was, or what to do when he heard the cry of "Rheinhardt!" echoing through the Yard on a warm spring evening. "I don't suppose," he said, half-aloud, "that this year's Freshmen even know who John the Orange Man and Bob Lampoon were...
...director Hershey warned that every able-bodied man in the United States must find his place in either the armed forces or in industries needed to win the war. The old-style summer school, with plenty of girls and plenty of beer, ended with 1942's last cry of "Rheinhardt." Naval communications officers had occupied the Yard since June, chaplains were studying at the Divinity School, and the Navy Indoctrination School had already graduated its first class...
...minds, and Harvard has more than its share of both, as is befitting its three centuries of existence. Some of these a serviceman who is completely strange to Cambridge can pick up as he goes along--but it's a good idea to know who "Copey" is, what "Rheinhardt" signifies, and who "Barry Wood" was, to cite a few examples...
...being a "campus" is likely to be shunned by the knowing ones from that point forward. Because it was once a cow pasture, it is now and forever shall be known as the "Yard." Through the rooms in the Halls (not dorms, please) the cry of Rheinhardt has echoed for years. In "them good old days" it was "Rheinhardt" that signified "riot" to the lowly Freshmen Yardlings, and many were the strife brought on by that call to arms, strife that often carried over to the Square and wreaked destruction on the fair city of Cambridge...