Word: harvardians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Puritan's Progress" unfolds the plight of an "A" student who falls into the toils of a buxom Dorchester lass. To be blunt, and the play is, he has to marry her. To his rescue comes Uncle Joe Whipple, erstwhile Beacon Hill Harvardian who has spent his post-college life in the Yukon. Uncle Joe lays $50,000 in gold on the line if young Whipple gets kicked out and marries Dorchester's Polly Dugan. Whip tries hard, aided by his room-mates. But something always comes up to change the whole aspect of his misdemeanors...
...free love, or whether it is significant of the moral decay of our younger generation is indeed a question of the utmost import. At any rate, as one noted educator put it recently, "... it's certainly more fun than goldfish..." His views were contested by a necessarily anonymous Harvardian who protested that there was a marked similarity between the two practices...
...withdraw completely. The Harvard group may be heterogeneous, and we are proud of it and attempt to become more representative of the U.S., but anyone of us might have fitted into the so called "Joe College" life at Cornell or Pennsylvania, for example. There is no reason why a Harvardian should experience the feeling that within limits, the normal activities of any college are beyond...
...York banker, grandson of Darius Mills who made a fortune in the California gold rush of 1849, Ogden Mills graduated from Harvard at 19, studied and practiced law before going into politics, and became like his fellow Harvardian, Franklin Roosevelt, a member of the New York State Senate. After the World War, in which he was a captain in the A.E.F., Ogden Mills went to Congress as a Representative, served three terms, won the reputation of being the House's best informed specialist on taxation and finance. In 1926, he ran for Governor of New York only to find...
...Harvardian how many museums his University possesses, and he will undoubtedly reel off the names of the Fogg and either the Germanic of the Semitic museums. A few even might remember having heard rumors of a vague institution known as the University Museum. But it is indeed a difficult task to find men who are in the know about such establishments, officially going under the title of museums, as the Harvard Seismograph Station, the Institute of Geographical Exploration, the Yenching Institute, or the Cushman Laboratory for Foraminiferal Research...