Word: utterness
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...both interesting and upsetting to travel about this large country to ask what they think a Harvard man really is. Around the corner from the House an outspoken teenager from East Boston will utter a few expletives and say that all Harvard men are, to put it mildly, snobs who wear vests and have ridiculous accents. And in the Midwest a mild fellow will strongly declare that Harvard is filled with shabbily dressed men who have wild ideas and long hair. While these interpretations are oversimplifications, these two types do represent the spectrum of Harvard College. Both the Harvard...
Harvard had many individual meanings, but for most the freedom it offered, "the right to utter" was one of its two major contributions to their lives; the other was the close contact with great teachers. Most of the essays are the relation of experiences with faculty members. This is in marked contrast to the two students recently at Harvard who commented on the grinding competition, the large amount of studying, and the activities. The only mention of faculty contact was that there wasn't nearly enough of it. A Harvard of teachers has become a Harvard of books...
...never fully relaxed in public, Britain's Queen is not gifted at putting people at their ease. Her conversational ploys are stiffly predictable and her smile too controlled to be encouraging. But as the stilted gambits of formal conversation begin to freeze into an awful possibility of utter silence in her presence, the Prince strolls up, speaks, and all the tight, polite smiles, including that on the Queen's own peaches-and-cream face, widen into the kind of relaxed good humor that warms hearts...
...language requirement, which calls only for a reading knowledge of some foreign tongue. As a result, the Harvard graduate may dazzle an evening cocktail party with his brilliant remarks on Voltaire's sense of irony or Goethe's treatment of Faust, but he will find himself at an utter loss in the Paris Flea Market or at a Munich Beer-Garden...
...devilishly dangle is nice, And to utter "It's me," my advice. For "Am I Not," I say "Ain't I," "It is not I," say " 'Tain't I," But my diction is clipped and precise...