Word: yarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conclusion must be that the undergraduate takes the horrors of examinations period more in stride nowadays, and that the haggard faces around the Yard conceal nerves that are steely. Perhaps the empty Stillman beds are indicative not of the lull before a storm, but of a basic undergraduate sturdiness, which now seems to be not entirely due to the predominance of older...
Bert Coville," hurdler on the Varsity, track team, says he feels about three feet tall. He has to run the 45-yard high hurdles against Harrison Dillard at the Garden tonight. "Maybe there'll be enough other guys running so I can get lost in the crowd," Coville said yesterday. Charlie Summerall, freshmen hurdler, will also...
...dripped into the well and gave us all diarrhea. Then we ran out of water. Nakakita told us we would have to yell as if we were sluicing ourselves with water so the visitors would think we were going through the rites. For two days we went into the yard fully dressed and went through the motions. Finally the oldtimers demanded that we give them a New Year's present of money. But they didn't get it. We ran away...
...welding knowledge to work on his first steel model, playfully called it "Electrolysis." But he did not start mass production until 194,5. Last year, his assembly-line yard at West Haven, Conn, turned out one steel cruiser every 90 minutes, and he grossed $4,250,000. (When Steelcraft's 1,000th boat came off the line, Churchward had it lifted 106 feet by a crane, then dropped to demonstrate its indestructibility.) So far, he has turned out 1,860 cruisers. This year he is stepping up production one-third, and hopes to turn out more small cruisers than...
...away as China and Cuba. When a freshman arrives, she is gently introduced to the Sargent way of life, and to Cambridge, which, an official handbook informs her, is "in the midst of New England's beauty, charm and intrigue." "If history interests you," the handbook continues, "visit Harvard Yard." Once acclimated, Sargent freshmen begin a four-year program which consists mostly of training in physical education and therapy, with a scattering of fundamental academic courses...