Word: wearingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...description of Harvard has been written by one who has, apparently, never been there. According to "Time", estimable weekly news magazine, in its description of the demonstration at the Law School following the election of Dean Roscoe Pound to the Presidency of the University of Wisconsin, Harvard law students wear ear-tabs when it is cold: Harvard law students are "worried and weasel-faced"; Harvard law students when they cheer, say "Yeah...
...would like to know, too, what place the modern college would find for Emerson, Poe, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and their great contemporaries. Being a shrewd observer Mr. Rood answers his last question as every thoughtful undergraduate could answer it: the college would first force these men "to wear hats and caps of the same style, suits and overcoats of the same cut, collars, ties, hosiery, shoes of the same pattern," then ostracize them until they were "out" for a team, a glee club, a publication, even brand them as "queer" until they thought like and acted like everybody else...
...Business School is doing a great and noble work. Take some of the little known economic effects of the eclipse. They are too numerous to mention and will certainly not all wear away in this generation; but take just one: When the moon slithered across the face of the sun producing darkness, it struck the country districts worst, and particularly the poultry. Hens lay scientifically nowadays; they run on schedule, any interference with their routine being disastrous, as members of the Business School know. Now one of the worst effects of the eclipse was the confusion that it threw among...
Milton usually has a strong hockey team, and will probably give the Freshmen a hard battle. The schoolboys' sextet this year is composed in the main of inexperienced men, although Putnam at center is one of the best players to wear the Academy colors in recent years. The Freshmen have been playing on indoor ice a considerable part of the time during the past two weeks, but they are not expected to be severely handicapped in the game this afternoon...
Slender, like Pershing, and youthful in appearance and manner. General Bullard has always lived at a rapid pace, and the conclusion of his career was no exception. The last few days were filled with enough activities, social and military, completely to wear out an ordinary...