Word: thrilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most people like to study statistics, perhaps because they are usually depressing, and almost everyone has a touch of sadism or masochism in him. At any rate, John Tunis' classic debunk of things at Harvard several years ago was able to provide Harvard men with something of a thrill. In addition, it was enough to give them an acute inferiority complex enough to convince them that they went out with clay pipes instead of silver spoons. Most Harvard graduates, infers Mr. Tunis, must have the fate of Broadway's current Harvard man-the spectacular specimen in "The Priterose Path...
...make lim look like a Balkan conspirator. Such behavior as his dining John Brown, "a real hero," might shock Concord, but Emerson snapped his fingers. It need not have surprised any who recalled that the American Revolution was barely a generaion old when the penniless Emerson boy used to "thrill" as he pastured the family cow "on the battlefield," and that the author of "America's intellectual declaraion of independence" liked talking to veterans of the fight at Concord Bridge...
...Such volume! Such beautiful tone! I've never had such a thrill as listening to Harvard boys sing," cried Hildegarde wrinkling up her nose and placing her arm around her CRIMSON interviewer...
When the result was announced before the Assembly, members remained seated on Left benches and shouted with gusto "Resign! Resign!" The Right answered with cries of "Go home to Moscow!" Finally strains of La Marseillaise broke out, and soon everyone was singing the anthem, enjoying a patriotic thrill in that unity against aggressors which President Lebrun represents...
...example of the coach of the new type, a year-round position, for which the plan calls. His name is as widely known in his sporting world as that of any competitive coach. And the champion games with Yale, with intensive coaching before them still continues the intercollegiate thrill for those deserving it. And finally, let it be remembered that athletics are moulded for the undergraduates, not for the coaches...