Word: whim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welltall fellow, raumybult and abelboobied, bynear saw altitudinous wee a schelling in kopfers. He was sair sair sullemn and chairmanlooking when he was not making spaces in his psyche, but, laus! when he wore making spaces on his ikey, he ware mouche mothst secred and muravyingly wisechairmanlooking. Now whim the sillybilly of a Gracehoper had jingled through a jungle of love and debts and jangled through a jumble of life in doubts afterworse, wetting with the bim-blebeaks, drikking with nautonects, bilking with durrydunglecks and horing after ladybirdies (ichnehmon diagelegenaitoikon) he fell joust as sieck as a sexton and tantoo...
...specific remedy for all this is mentioned, but the Professor's statement is in itself a bread enough hint for the understanding reader. Traditions, persistent and tenacious things, are not to be altered at the more whim of an Administration. But the idea of fraternities is something else again. Dunster House, under the name of Omega Alpha and Lowell House disguised as Lambda Lambda Lambda would stand a far better chance of saving a critical situation. Add to this the penalty of expulsion for playing bridge or for speaking when spoken to, and the success of the House Plan...