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...heart goes out to the individual caught between two eras, risking a split personality as he is buffered back and forth between the old and the new, not knowing where to turn. We have in mind a man we saw at Sunday dinner. Dressed in a new tweed jacket, of whalebone pattern, and wearing the black knit tie, he pulled from his pocket a large and faded red bandana, and just a little self-consciously wiped his nose. -The Daily Dartmouth...
...earthy existence 'midst the pine trees and the birds. No more of the violent college spirit, the "small college" attitude. For Dartmouth men come from the mad whirl of city life and know what the bright lights look like. "Let's have a new Dartmouth tradition, a cosmopolitan, tweed dressed, and smartly polished one." Harvard, once a "small college," has turned suburban without that sense of shame from selling out! May Dartmouth...
Keezer spends a large part of each day around the Yard and the dormitories keeping up his contacts and waiting for business. He himself is something of a landmark, with his tweed cap, standing at the gate of the Union and greeting the entering and emerging Freshmen...
Although last week Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain appeared to be only fishing in the River Tweed, the sudden announcement from Balmoral that King George and Queen Elizabeth will next year become the first reigning Britons ever to set foot in North America was recognized as an opening move by Son Neville to attempt the construction of Father Joseph's proposed transatlantic flying buttress of peace...
...world: three Scottish championships, two British championships, three U. S. championships, three Canadian championships, and winner of an average of 20 tournaments a year since she won her first prize in 1895. Now married to a Princeton banker, Dorothy lona Campbell Kurd Howe, 55, is still as British as tweed, plays golf three times a week, knits stockings, rides a bicycle, helps her husband raise Jersey cows...