Word: websterisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Running with two broken bones in his foot, Frederic A. Webster '35, yesterday finished fourth in the cross-country time-trials, to win a place on the squad which faces New Hampshire on Friday...
...time-trial was won by Robert S. Playfair '36 in 29.41. O'Neill was second, with Cutler third, and Webster fourth. Neither Playfair nor Webster fourth. Neither Playfair nor Webster had run in the Holy Cross meet, as Playfair was running against Beccali on the following day, and Webster's injuries kept...
...Smith girls are devoted to a grey-goateed, twinkly little Scotsman who as a boy ate porridge morning & evening and has had chronic indigestion ever since. He is William Allan Neilson, president of Smith since 1917, famed literary scholar, stanch liberal, editor-in-chief of the latest Webster's Dictionary. At 65 President Neilson is wise and witty, still likes to tease his tall, handsome German wife, look into almost everything that goes on in Northampton and the world...
...that the name of Abou Ben Adhem "led all the rest." Now, with Caroline Norton, one reads about the "soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...
Wielding the gavel will be Frederic A. Webster '35, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association; E. Francis Bowditch '35, president of the Student Council will expound its aims and activities; for the CRIMSON, President John H. Morison '35 will carry the torch; Francis D. Moore '35, president of the Lampoon, Howard H. Mason '35, president of the Advocate, John C. Haggott '35, president of the Dramatic Club, and Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, president of the Mountaineering Club, will speak for their respective organizations. William G. Kirby '35, president of the Glee Club will speak both for the Pierian...