Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most interesting gift in the form of a scrap-book has recently been received by Widener Library from Charles C. Read '64. In this volume he kept a record of his undergraduate days by clippings from the Boston Evening Transcript, programs, official notices, invitations and other mementos. Many crew regatta programs are pasted throughout the scrap-book. One is of particular interest as it tells of the race in which crimson was first taken as the Harvard color. In another place a long clipping from the Transcript tells of the visit to this country of "Albert of Belgium," now King...
...assure you. Save for our presence and that of a few civilians who have come back to take up the sorry task of rebuilding and rehabilitating--yes, and save for an occasional air raid--we might as well be in some old stone quarry, camping by piles of scrap rock...
...delinquents, but even that torture may have to be resorted to unless something radical occurs. We have to get that missing $4,000 in to Phillips Brooks House immediately, or at least let them know why we have not paid. We do not want to get the "scrap of paper" attitude toward pledges. They must be made as good as gold...
...prohibition of Sunday sports may be as iron-bound as the laws of the Medes and the Persians. But the Medes and the Persians being dead, their laws are not worth the traditional scrap of paper. So the dulators of our present laws should not exercise in part an authority which they ceased generations ago to exercise in spirit. The Blue Laws may well be stricken with blue lightning, and vanish in blue smoke...
...which will readily occur to the average follower of college sports. How long would any self-respecting university stand such a condition? How long would it be before in righteous wrath intercollegiate football at many of our institutions would be torn up root and branch and cast into the scrap heap? The future of football as a sport has suddenly assumed a portentous aspect...