Word: temperment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aside from the increasing feminine influence and occasional new buildings, not much has changed around the Square since Lindberg began at Cambridge in 1911. And, save for clothing styles, undergraduate temper and attitude have remained constant. "I remember seeing a picture in the bank showing a line of students sporting those broad-brimmed straw 'skimmers'." Then, of course, "there was the era of the battered hat," he recalls, "before the fellows stopped wearing hats at all." Riots, or lesser displays of spring fever have also been common. "I remember one, just after they'd finished building Wigglesworth, when somebody there...
...thousands, even for minor tournaments. And they would no more think of repressing their natural partisanship than a crowd of U.S. baseball fans. A visiting American can expect to have his court errors lustily cheered, can count on cries of "Lout!" and "Mug!" if he shows temper or disgruntlement...
...temper of its decision, the Corporation seems to have recognized what others in the University have ignored: that some (not all) of the criticisms of Harvard on this issue come from well-intentioned people, and they cannot be discounted merely because they are not sophisticated or intellectual. For when an intellectual community gives up trying to understand and reason with people outside it, it has lost one of its raisons d'etre...
...invited guests being told they could not follow the route to the presidential handshake . . . despite their correct evening attire, their long white gloves." Added Columnist Gordon later: "We might as well go in galoshes and tweed hats." The Battles of Protocol. A late-in-life blonde with the temper of a redhead, Columnist Gordon has fought many a skirmish before on the field of protocol...
Died. "Uncle Don" Carney (real name: Howard Rice), 68, famed radio pal of small fry from the late '20s to the mid-'40s, whose daily flow of cheery songs, birthday announcements and sugary advice (on such problems as nail biting, gulping, temper) earned him as much as $90,000 a year before blood-and-thunder adventure serials forced him to make his living as a disc jockey* (1947); of a heart ailment; in Miami...