Word: chowder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most challenging of these skirmishes took place at Harvard University, where members of the Student L.I.D. and the N.S.L. with boldness, had called a strike. A group of Harvard CRIMSON cub candidates was organized by that newspaper into the Michael Mullins Chowder Club, which was to run a counter meeting in "favor of war" in an effort to discredit the whole strike. The Freshman Dining Halls at Cambridge would supply the pro-war exponents with eggs and tomatoes...
...eleven o'clock some 2,000 students appeared in front of the Widener Library. The Chowder Club came out in regalia, one clad in towels holding a "Down with Peace" sign, another in black robes with a bomb, another in boy scout togs tooting a bugle and leading cheers for "We Want War," and the prize of the lot clad as a Nazi Storm Trooper...
...Michael Mullins, and do not know whether he is a Harvard professor or a Boston Barkeep, or whether he lives on Brattle Street, or in South Boston; but if he is not the cream in your coffee, I trust he will always be the clam in your chowder; for under his inspiration, if newspaper accounts are correct, your organization has just given a demonstration of a truth often forgotten in academic classrooms, namely, that there is a fundamental distinction between pacifism and peace. As a member of the Harvard Club of Washington, I feel sure that photographs of your Club...
...Germany's less, and the world's, that there are no branches of Harvard's Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club in Germany. We do not know the life history of the estimable Michael, but we suspect him of having combined the best qualities of a bellicose pacifist with those of a "parfit gentil knight." Hence his devotees, with equal catholicity, carried to the pacifist students' meeting in the Harvard Yard last week banners bearing the slogans: "Down with war!" and "Down with peace!" To every attack on Harvard's R.O.T.C. a bugler of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching...
...bitter seriousness of these young people lies their chief menace to the world. Never much given to the sort of sane nonsense that so often appears among American undergraduates, they are deprived of the counterbalancing influence of such pranks as that of the Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Club. If any German student were to appear on a university campus with a sign reading "Down with war!" he would be mobbed and probably arrested. And yet this sort of tactics at Harvard made a farce of what would, if taken seriously, have been an exhibition of sophomoric folly. So long...