Word: sawyerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sawyer Acts as Head Usher...
...Henry B. Sawyer, Jr. '36, baseball manager and former chairman of the Entertainment Committee, was head usher. Assisting him as ushers were John L. Clark '36, Richard S. Keene '38, Arthur Notman, Jr. '37, Robert W. Snyder '38, Archer P. W. Trench '37, and Cyrus C. Wells...
Tickets, which are priced at $2.00 a couple and $1.50 a stag, may be obtained in the Dinning Room, or at the door. Since this is the only Christmas dance in the Houses, Henry B. Sawyer '36 announced that all members of the University will be welcome...
...talking of Mark Twain, she said, "I met him at a party when I was a young girl--we just sat in a corner and talked. Have you read his "Mysterious Stranger?". Most people know the Mark Twain of "Tom Sawyer" or "Huckleberry Finn," but in this book is another Mark Twain, cruel, hard, and the greatest pessimist in the world...
...greatly troubled by what you say. I wrote Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn for adults exclusively, & it always distresses me when I find that boys & girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience & to this day I cherish an unappeasable bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again this side...