Word: harvardians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Banker Morgan among its visitors mitigated and contrasted with the ignominy of another Harvard occurrence last week. The Senior class had elected one Edward Fuller Fitzhugh Jr., of Boise, Idaho, to write the Baccalaureate hymn. That was a sad selection for Harvard. Poet Fitzhugh wrote four quatrains of lofty, Harvardian sentiment to be sung to the tune of "Ancient of Days." The lines were published. Not until then, last week, was it discovered that the first letters of the lines in each quatrain spelled a four-letter word. The first two words were the same, an unprintable obscenity. The last...
...annual momentous interview with a CRIMSON reporter, Max Keezer, Cantabridgian wit, famed vendor and buyer of Harvardian habiliments, and unofficial plainclothes man of Harvard Square, brought several more of those first hand coups de maitre of a master wit into the limelight for posterity. Mr. Keezer, who claims to be even more expert in the matter of the philosophy of clothes than Carlyle himself, was pouring over a volume of "Sartor Resartus" when approached by the scribe in his Emporium yesterday. "Lasciate ognisperanza vio chentrate," said the original Mose of second hand clothes by way of greeting...
...Harvardian Orchestra to Play...
...complete Harvardian orchestra playing under the direction of Roy Lamson '29, will give a varied program of popular music and classical adaptations on Sunday evening, October 2. This concert will inaugurate the Sunday evening entertainments which the graduate secretaries of the Union plan for every Sunday during the coming year. It has long been a custom of the Union management to give the men a special steak dinner on Sunday evening. Nearly 400 men come and it is the purpose of the Sunday entertainments to furnish a pleasant hour immediately after supper. These entertainments will combine music with moving pictures...
From a perusal of this list of fines, the causal student of early Harvardian might assume that fiscal punishment was the only kind meted out to the unruly undergraduate. This was not the case, however, as evidently from the following law the President and Tutors were allowed to chastise the sinner...