Word: winthrope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three hundred cans for four guys; that's a lot. When you put 300 cans on the mantelpiece that's even worse, but the Winthrop House Polar Bares look upon this achievement with pride as the culminating point in a worthy college career. They argue that it isn't everyone who can drink 300 cans of beer and pile them all on the mantelpiece. The reason they give for collecting such a magnificent stack of tin cans is that when divisionals are over they will be able to celebrate by rolling one down the entry stairs every ten seconds...
...Harvard Indifference" was proven early yesterday morning when residents of Gore Hall, Winthrop House, failed to notice the anguish of two young Cambridge women who were rolled in sheets in the court, tired, hungry, and cold...
...wended their way to Winthrop House, whose windows shone warm and cozy. By midnight the windows had begun to darken and the girls began to realize that there was little hope. They were found by the University police at 2 o'clock wrapped in sheets. Where the sheets came from was not disclosed...
Great was their surprise, therefore, when an envelope arrived last Saturday addressed to the "Winthrop House Burma Club" with a personal letter from the artist himself, in which he explained the non-inflammability of his hero as follows...
...pleasant as the letter was, it has not caused one-third as much comment as the full-color, full-profile picture of Burma herself that was enclosed, inscribed "To the club members at Winthrop House, with my very best wishes...