Word: tocsin
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...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's words: 'If gold rust, what shall iron...
...better can sound the tocsin that will start a revolt to raise the tone of American politics...
...leading position is given to an article by Walter D. Edmonds, Jr., called "The Gum-Didderators of Football." Besides the tocsin sound of the title, the author provides a further alarum by the use of "jugglingatoriums" in the third paragraph. The problem of the importance of the game of football in the program of American higher education is a vexed one; Mr. Edmonds' distinguishing contribution to the discussion is a decree that "big" games are all right--because they have some part in the prevention of hardening of alumni arteries but that they should be kept among friends and neighbors...
...lamented Harding, in his bighearted, sympathetic way, sounded the tocsin call in his New York speech to enter the World Court. That was only a step, but a step in the right direction...
...minds the seven o'clock bell which peals from the enpola of Harvard Hall, they could not have better formulated their definitions. For no apparent reason, the students in the Yard are daily inflicted with five minutes of sleep destroying agony. When inquiries are made concerning this nerve-shattering tocsin, the reply is invariable: that the bell has always been rung at seven, and probably will always be rung at seven, until its vibrations will have shaken down the very pillars which support...