Word: harvardians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight o'clock on the morning of Monday, September 14th, I debouched on Harvard Square from the Boston-Cambridge subway. I was led along by the Harvardian who had escorted me from New York. Soon I could catch glimpses of a park full of buildings. The square and the other side of the street along which I was walking were more decently and consistently planned than the average American small town, where frame shacks and ferro-concrete skyscrapers jostle each other. In Cambridge (you must get used to the fact that there is a Cambridge other than that which exists...
Garbed in his habitual gabardine slacks and yellow turtle-neck sweater, the stage and screen star was the true feminine counterpart of the Harvardian's idea of dressing for comfort. Despite constant interruptions from the horde of autograph-seekers and hangers-on around her dressing-room, she shot back alert replies, seemed to enjoy her only exclusive interview during her brief Hub visit...
...long ago, a telephone call was received by the studio to the effect that a Harvardian, who had never so much as stepped on a dance floor, desired to learn the intricacies of the bacchanal rhythm. The prices of both the four and ten lesson courses were stated, but no such intensive training was desired. "One will be enough," came the jaunty reply, "I learn easily...
...became popular. One barber insisted that undergraduates have been receiving the short cut for 40 years; another stated in has been prominent for only 10 years. (General belief has it that the short haircut gained popularity about 20 years ago. Manfred Howditch '12 was conceded to be the first Harvardian to have asked...
...been banned from the mails or at least denied circulation in Cambridge. The conclusion of the turtle-egg story contains barefaced indecency. And the letter from an "Expatriate", called "Glittering Pie" is the smuttiest of vulgarity. Never, since its founding in '66 has the Advocate printed such un-Harvardian trash. The Lampoon has been penalized for less offence. When the Advocate errs it should receive correction from the University and from all who cherrish its good name. The college magazine of Kittredge, Hart, Copeland, Roosevelt (Theodore), T. S. Eliot and Conrad Aiken should not be allowed to fall into...