Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Attached hereto is front page of our Nov. 20 edition in which TIME gets a bit of free publicity, which we think deserved...
...think of it! The women of other countries dare the danger of the long journey to these far lands without a tremor, while, needless to say, our women sit idly at home, not so much as stepping outside their own front door. Even our men do not dare take one step toward an ambition to make a new home in distant parts...
...Careful Greeterism has lately turned, like others of the world's great artistic movements, to classicism for its inspiration. I think it was Nennius who said. So act that each greeting, broadly implied, will never give a clue to your own true feeling...
...there is more in it even than that. A man who remembers a face, or who considers an introduction of the evening before ample reason for a nod, is no better, in my estimation, than one who thinks membership in the same club with one of these relaxed persons a justification of continued bowing to aim. And there still exist--can you believe it?--those who think playing on the same athletic squad full license for a greeting outside of season...
...think the House Plan will make Careful Greeterism a subtler thing than ever before. Take me, for example, a Senior. I have fulfilled all my ambitions, academic and social. There is no one on whom I need to use the Chummy. But under the House plan even Seniors will be continually meeting professors. Useful levers to success, as the Chummy proved to be in the Freshman. Sophomore, and Junior years, need not be discarded. Variety and constant refurbishing: only these things can save Harvard from Keezerism--or friendliness. This tocsin is, of course, not for the herd. But, in Chaucer...