Word: wave
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...white handkerchiefs. Contrary to precedent, however, the "H" this year will be crimson on a white background instead of vice-versa as has been the case in the past. It will be made during the singing of the "Marseillaise." All men in the cheering sections will stand up and wave the handkerchiefs in rhythm according to the directions of the cheer leaders...
...which dealt with armaments, have had a discouraging effect, and made many people sceptical about the results of the conference. But this sound, clear-cut proposition to reduce and limit navies, in every way practical without losing sight of the ideal, has set minds at rest and brought a wave of optimism which ought to be strong enough of itself to assure ultimate success. Now that the nation sees the possibilities, it will not be content with half-way measures...
...this goes to press, half of the College is already well on the way to Princeton. By boat, by train, by motor, the Crimson flood is descending on the Tiger to unite this afternoon in one tremendous wave which is to overwhelm the supporters of the Black and Orange. Greatly will the team be aided by this section of Harvard which will be with them in the Palmer Stadium. But besides all the cheering thousands in New Jersey, there will be still others taking no less a share in the great struggle...
...courses not merely in law and medicine, but in accountancy, in retail salesmanship, in insurance, and indeed, in almost every department of business activity. Even the less comprehensive college which have not schools of commerce, finance and accounts have in perceptible degree enlarged their curricula, and the general tidal wave which carries thousands into these "practical" university departments sweeps many into them as well...
...without a dint of quilty conscience have we younger graduates and lingering students of Harvard seen the recent editorial comment in regard to the present tendencies of thought in the student body at the University. We have been constantly reminded of the ecumenical wave of "radicalism" that is sweeping the undergraduate off his intellectual feet. We have heard with deadening conviction the results of the diagnosis of students' marks. We have almost recoiled in despair at the revival of the old question of social distinctions, and the intolerant, glib exegesis that has naturally followed. Our guilty conscience has not been...