Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...kind of taint or flaw...
...excellence of Harvard's representatives in the field last Saturday sets a high standard for more regular activities in Cambridge. The very words "normal routine" have a some what distasteful ring in the ears of the Vagabond and he fears that today's lectures will suffer an inevitably allied taint. Perhaps the break from the glorification of the week-end when more than one Vagabond was king for a day, had best be made at one plunge. With this in mind the Vagabond recommends the lecture by Professor Holcombe to be given today in Harvard 2, on "The Rule...
...VENUTI is unpardonable. THE MAN FROM THE SOUTH proves it. So does his "TAINT SO HONEY, "TAINT...
...philosopher of Friendship, put the whole thing in one of his characteristic nutshells last week. Said he: "I hain't a-goin' to vote fer neither one. I wouldn't vote fer that cereal man. An' if it takes two Smith brothers ter make a package o' cough drops, 'taint likely one's goin' to do much to run th' country...
...suggested it might, out of a kind of vanity. Whatever the impetus, it is a fact that learning is desirable at Harvard, and yet that curiously enough, fewer men have leisure than ever before. Still the utilitarian character of the country remains, but still, as Mr. Benn says, its taint has not infected the Harvard curriculum...