Word: slurs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is reason to believe that this public display of drinking and its unfortunate results are sanctioned and even encouraged by those managing the initiations. Women students* are regularly seen in the Yard [main campus] and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures. . . . A passerby on Quincy street was embarrassed by public aspersion on his virility. . . ." Until five years ago, when Hasty Pudding merged with the Institute...
...running and there is reason to believe that this public display or drinking and its unfortunate results are sanctioned and even encouraged by those managing the initiations. Women students are regularly seen in the Yard and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads, and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures...
...Reid and his 48 competitors entered the Edison plant for their official reception, they found speakers' platforms, microphones, chairs, benches. Pale, a little nervous, the boys sat down. Spectators commented on the normalcy and healthfulness of their appearance, were amused as they recognized the drawl of the south, the slur of the west. Ranging in age from 15 to 21, the boys had come from all classes, from farms, towns, cities. There was the son of the Czecho-Slovakian consul at Pittsburgh, the son of a bishop, a boy brought up in an orphanage. Rather stiffly they sat there...
Evidently the person writing these briefs of "People" either knows nothing of the very remarkable book with all its beauty and philosophy, or he is prejudiced and meant to slur the character which Miss Barrymore will portray in this play...
...slur on Actress Barrymore was intended or contained in TIME'S report. Scarlet Sister Mary's publisher advertised her as "The harlot of Blue Brook Plantation...