Word: straw
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...balmy February weather? The trees may bloom; the Seniors may appear in cap and gown, but these are no more than gentle hints that spring is here. The undergraduate persists in wearing his worn and stained felt hat--no matter how sultry the weather. Not until the publicly advertised Straw-hat Day has come and gone does the University have a faint suspicion that the season may have changed. For some of us, it may be the knowledge that our fancies are lightly turning; but how uncertain a sign! Not until the haberdashers round the Square cry aloud that Harvard...
...dormitory squash tennis and squash racquets tournaments between men in each of the freshman halls the following men have been named for the respective teams: Squash Racquets, Smith: Alexander Mackay-Smith and L. H. Rouillion; Gore: Carroll Harrington and F. I. Carpenter; Standish: W. H. Harkness and E. A. Straw. Squash Tennis: J. M. Hopkins of Smith, R. M. Klein of Gore, and S. W. White Jr. of Standish. Each team will have two matches to play and the percentage of victories will decide the championship in each sport...
...Cambridge is looking to the new fer moral support! From England comes the news that by a vote of 904 to 713 the plebiscite conducted by Cambridge University has rejected a propo a to admit women on equal terms with men. A debate at the Union and a straw vote showed that the undergraduate opinion was strongly against women entering the University. While the teaching staff was evenly divided, the graduates' vote confirmed the verdict of the student body, with the resultant defeat of the proposal...
Believing that the participation of the Faculty in the voting of the recently held Presidential Straw Ballot was too small to accurately gauge the true attitude of this body toward the present elections, the CRIMSON sent out last week the following self-explanatory circular letter ton over 300 members of the Faculty: "Dear...
...order to convey a correct opinion to the outside world regarding the stand of the Faculty toward the coming elections, which cannot be done by the few votes cast in the recent Presidential Straw Ballot, held under the auspices of the Harvard CRIMSON, the Harvard CRIMSON is conducting a postal card canvass of all members of the instructing body of Harvard University whose addresses are available at this time...