Word: harvardians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college has spawned a successor, called in this more dignified era, the Harvardians. In keeping with its name, the newer group is smoother and more suave than were the hell-for-leather Gold Coasters. Many of the old jump arrangements saved from former times by Harvardian trumpeter, George Springer, whose career started back in the Randloph days, have been regretfully left in their covers, apparently unwanted by the jaded dancers of the late forties. The musicians have had to work off their excess energy on fast waltzes, rumbas and sambas. Answering the current demand for gentility in dance music, leader...
Latecomers and would-be readers who missed the morning distribution will find a last-minute reserve at the Bowl just outside the Walter Camp memorial gate. Where newsboys wil lattempt to catch all these who look Harvardian before they enter the saucer...
Sprinter Bill Lambdin showed up well in a fast 24-second 50 yards against the Blue, but here again Bill MacVickar should outstroke him. Ex-Harvardian Edwin Townesly, reputed to be out of condition from extra sentry duty, should be moderately easy pickings for Jerry Gorman in the 220-yard freestyle...
...this sensitively written and finely conceived book which treats the dawning of that period in American history known as the Harvardian Age at which time scholarly James Bryant Conant was Chief Executive, Arthur M. Schlesinger IV proves as competent a chronicler of events in the nation's history as did his great-grandfather Arthur Meier Schlesinger, author and one-time Francis Higginbotham professor of history, Harvard; and grandfather Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who carried off a Pulitzer prize for his book, The Age of Jackson...
...object of proper policy is at all times to elevate the standards of education. Does the presence of Radcliffe in the Yard cause the Harvardian to raise his sights, or to lower them...