Word: wherefor
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...conception of the so-called "Harvard manner" troubles us even more. Why, we query, should a man act like a gentleman in college? Or, for that matter, why shouldn't he? A person's polish, blithely spattered upon a well-thumbed pedigree, will hardly serve him in peddling bonds. Wherefor then, all this poifect gent stuff? Is it, too, an adaptation to environment? Perhaps, but since the wholesome prostitution of "good names" has become a disturbing realization to most of the Beacon Street element there must be something beneath the surface. The Harvard man must actually have a manner...
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