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Word: yardsters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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Back in the '80's some indifferent Yardster referred idly to the growing institution on Garden Street as the "Harvard Annex," and that name stuck for years, faintly indicative of the vague scorn with which undergraduates looked on their feminine associates. Somehow Radcliffe never started; it just grew. One day in 1879 there were some girls getting instructed by Harvard teachers. After a while they were a college, and now that college is Radcliffe, and puts on plays with the HDC. In the intervening years poor Radcliffe has come to be a synonym for all that is unattractive in women...

Author: By Armand SCHWAB Jr., | Title: All About Radcliffe: It Ain't Necessarily So | 12/15/1942 | See Source »

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