Word: unbending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have my grandson study Rabelais, Montaigne, Ben Franklin and Li T'ai-Po, rather than William Jennings Bryan. Nor do I despair of students who, at times, unbend. They may become lovable conservatives, pillars of state, like Samuel Johnson and Pepys...
...this same Scholar will unbend so far as to slide 50 cents under the box office grating the next time a burlesque troupe settles in the local auditorium he will suddenly feel younger. The rising curtain will reveal: first a pair of feet that are not mates, next a pair of checkered pantaloons merging into a green vest, finally a long and astonishingly rubric nasal organ. The comedian is suddenly struck violently in the stomach. He gyrates neatly, and falls flat upon his face. The memories involved may provoke a smile. More probably they will give the aged Scholar...
...another side to the question, however. Not that we would accuse the club of being falsely "high-brow." Not that we would for a moment go back to the old policy of barren repetition. Far from it. And yet it is not altogether unfitting that the chorus should occasionally unbend and give a few of the threadbare tunes still dear to the hearts of Harvard men everywhere. It does not smack unduly of small-town collegiate spirit to enjoy hearing the football songs and "Fair Harvard." The protests raised by the alumni in several western cities during the spring trip...