Word: vernal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently local papers have found that the most important characterizes of Harvard in the vernal season is funny automobiles. Now there are very many funny and ridiculous and otherwise entertaining automobiles at Harvard. Just as there are all manner of humorous accessories at any place. But comparatively few undergraduates find touring in Fords their sole occupation in the spring months. No one has as yet, either in faculty or college, risen to exclaim. "The Ford's the thing...
...pleasant thing to enter any joust, especially since the radio and the press make of every salute a mighty warery But when there are so many other activities in which to attempt the spectacular, it is rather unfortunate that the fall guy, college football, must be worried from his vernal sleep...
Then I shall sally forth with Brahms' melody still in my ears upon my vernal peregrinations...
When suddenly I discovered the reason for the cameras. It seems that there is a custom in Cambridge when April with her showers sleety has allowed a short hiatus in the vernal equinox--and the custom is this, young and old tall and short, discreet and indefinite--all take each other's picture. Where proud the shaft of the monument on the common lifts its granite head, there I saw two girls with their boy friends taking each other's pictures with frank abandon. So mirror will be the richer soon by one enlarged, unretouched photograph of Mazie...
...Vernal wanderlust commenced stirring last week. Last year some half billion dollars were spent in Europe by U. S. tourists, who traveled solitary or under the auspices of travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Son. What was spent by the thousands who toured similarly to Asiatic countries, to the Mediterranean shore lands, the Holy Land, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, it is difficult to estimate. Almost as much, probably...