Word: severance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seminar in an instructor's room, with smoking allowed, presents the student with a refreshing contrast to the run-of-the-mill sessions in Harvard, Emerson, or Sever, where he is often confronted with an uninspiring lecture and a bafflingly large reading list...
Shortly after eleven o'clock last Saturday morning, the vicinity of Sever Hall was the site of much activity. Harvard students, finishing up the last classes of the day in anticipation of a big afternoon at the stadium, dribbled out of Sever's wide portal in slovenly contrast to the ramrod posture and brass-buttoned uniforms of members of the Military Academy, who, collected in small dignified groups, were chatting away with one another in a way becoming cadets...
...Harvard, but the cadets in action against Harvard. The larger of the two ladies had taken it upon herself to be a guide for all those within shouting distance, for, with a fine combination of emphasis and scorn, she pointed a finger at the gaunt bulk of Sever standing solemnly, patiently, in the background...
According to the advance flyer, the Corps on arrival at Back Bay will march to Park Street preceded by its Band, take subway to Cambridge yards, form, march, form and be dismissed in front of Sever Hall some time after 10 o'clock in the morning...
Striving to avoid monotonous repetition in their daily compositions, the dieticians have coined this phrase to take the place of the more mundane "whole wheat bread," thus following the lead of the Maintenance Department, which earlier in the year labelled the new Sever exit an "egress...