Word: rogerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...YOUR OCT. 23 ISSUE TIME CALLS ROGER BABSON VENERABLE. THIS WILL MAKE OUR GREAT AND GOOD PATRON ANGRY FOR WEBSTER'S SAYS THE USE OF THE WORD VENERABLE GENERALLY IMPLIES ADVANCED AGE. MR. BABSON IS ONLY 64 AND IF YOU COULD SEE HIM RIDE WITH US WEBBER GIRLS YOU WOULD NOT CALL HIM VENERABLE. IF YOUR EDITORS USED VENERABLE IN THE SENSE OF BEING RENDERED SACRED BY RELIGIOUS HISTORIC OR OTHER ASSOCIATIONS WE WILL GLADLY WITHDRAW OUR OBJECTION FOR MR. BABSON's LIFELONG INTERESTS AND GOLDEN RULE PHILOSOPHY CERTAINLY ENTITLE HIM TO QUALIFY UNDER THIS LATTER ETYMOLOGY...
...Roger Wilcox '41 and Chapin Wallour '42 skippered the Harvard dinghy team into fifth position in the collegiate sail boat races held yesterday on the Charles. Williams won with 38 points, as M.I.T. and Princeton trailed closely with 35 and 33 points respectively...
...poets, settled for the top-ranked 32,* arranged with NBC a 12,000-mile Odyssey to broadcast from their homes, workshops, shrines. After an unofficial send-off from Admirer Auslander at the Library of Congress, the Pilgrimage got under way last Sunday. Pilgrim Malone visited the room in the Roger Brooke Taney house at Frederick, Md. which Francis Scott Key used to frequent, broadcast chattily of the old medico whose truculence toward the British got Key in the prison-ship predicament that inspired his deathless ditty...
...fullback along with Ives is Jim Doughty, a capable and experienced player who is playing his fourth year of college soccer having received his training in the Freshman and Jayvee ranks. As Roger Oarsman is out with a twisted ankle, the fullback reserves consist of George Kyte and Jim Davage...
Included in the organizing committee are Eric W. Johnson '40; W. Rhoads Murphey III, '41; Hugh Barbour '42; Mortimer Rayman '41, Roger Schafer '41, and Robert Lockwood...