Word: walnut
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Sharp-eyed Freshmen have noticed elaborately carved walnut panels in one corner of the Union's main dining hall. On them are engraved the names of Charles Sumner, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and others. These are the charter members of a now abandoned project, the Harvard Hall of Fame. The Union Dining Hall, it seems, was to become a sort of collegiate Cooperstown, with the name of one famous graduate on every panel. The announcement of the plan was accompanied by a great hue, and pressure by groups of alumni desiring impannelment of their special hero. But the high cost...
Stargel started out in football as a fullback while a freshman at Cincinnati Walnut Hills High School and played offensive halfback as a sophomore. That season, Stargel was switched to end, where he played both on offense and defense, and he completed his high school career at that position. In his senior year, his play gained him a place on the all-state high school team...
Miss Brown: "Your board was put on after the '70s. Here's an original walnut board...
...British Dry announced: "You don't invite a vegetarian to dinner and then serve meat. You know, this wouldn't happen in any other country." With impeccable Gallic aplomb, the maitre d'hotel ushered the foaming Drys to a separate table set with walnut juice and other soft drinks. The Frenchmen stayed where they were, and before very long sent out for more champagne...
Harvard's first head, the controversial Master Nathaniel Eaton, flogged disobedient undergraduates, and in 1639 he clobbered a faculty assistant with a "walnut tree cudgel," compared to which the modern billy club would be a toothpick...