Word: scollay
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...that approach universality are that (1) they typically display an awe of the sacred name of Harvard; (2) they have at least a passing interest in intellectual subjects (investigations prove that the median I.Q. of women is more than 10 points higher in Harvard Square than it is in Scollay Square); and (3) they are females (though this is of doubtful value in some cases). Any further scientific description calls for a division into types...
...main points of the affirmative were the motto, "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may" and the claim that wives would keep students from "wild excursions to Smith, Vassar, and Scollay Square.' In addition, William G. Matthews '43 of the Gold Coasters asserted that the plan would improve the language of undergraduates immeasurably...
Today we circle Scollay Square, for the Old Howard no less than the New Lecture Hall is an integral part of Harvard life. Last year's Senior Album poll reported that the average scholar in the class of 1940 had attended three Boston burlesque performances (including one midnight show). The questionnaire also found some twenty-odd men who had been present for more than a dozen exposures. One member of the class was employed there as an usher for six months during his final term at Harvard. And a few years ago the Old Howard even appeared in a Geography...
...Yale--across the street from the current Crawford House. At the Old Howard the scum and the cream of society finds a common denominator. And, quite different from Boston's more pretentious musical revues, dress is informal even on opening nights at the friendly little theatre off Scollay Square...
...just remember the British merchantman that was torpedoed in the North Atlantic last summer. She went down pretty fast, but the crew kept their spirits up by singing--not Rule Brittania or Pomp and Circumstance, but just plain Beer Barrel Polka. Pardon me while I run down to Scollay Square and yell "I Am an American," just as loud...