Word: shrills
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...missing an opportunity. Instead of going to distant Roxbury or South Boston they might save themselves carfare and do Cambridge a good turn by opening a campaign to Clean Up Harvard Square. The muckers that haunt its precincts are a favorite subject for humorists:-- their pleas for "scrambles"; their shrill persistency in disposing of "Globe, Trawler, Transcri't, and A-Merrycan"; their conversational invasions of unprotected dormitories, are all notorious. But the social service workers seem to have overlooked them. If we stop to think of them seriously, the dangers in their path are evident. The examples they see among...
...carry back to the elmbowered streets of New Haven the scalp of John Harvard. Anyone who knows the Bulldog of old knows that he is a fighter; that the words of the prophets are likely to be violently upset, and that the game is not won till the final shrill blast of the whistle...
...Shrill echoes of a teeming...
...eccentric in good style. A. C. Champollion and Haviland articulated the French verse in perhaps the best style. The acting of K. H. Gibson, playing the difficult part of the old countess, was exceedingly good, but his articulation was indistinct from his constant attempt to imitate the shrill treble of an old lady. With the exception of F. B. Thompson and L. de Koven, the acting was rather suppressed in the attempt to give the French accent and intonation correctly. E. C. Edson as Leandre, the timid son of the old judge, played his part with great skill...
...Harvard man was the quicker, and pandemonium reigned among the Harvard supporters when it was seen that he had got there first and the ball was Harvard's. Mr. Moffitt was on the spot, and "Touchdown!" was what he said, but Harvard's hopes were dashed when the shrill note of Mr. Coffin's whistle was heard back at Yale's 20-yard line, and he announced that the ball was Yale's on account of interference with a fair catch. In vain Trafford protested that there was no one within yards of Butterworth when he muffed the ball...