Word: departments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demands of fanatical football fans even though it knows this to be "wrong" is foreign to the traditions of any free educational institution and to Harvard in particular. If an educational institution stands for anything it should stand for intellectual and moral honesty. Your suggestion that it should depart from this ideal (I do not deny than in the past it has not been constantly adhered to unfortunately) is a disgrace to your own integrity...
...outstanding talent from other institutions. Would Professor Wiener dare say that the men who replace these professors in the dispossessed schools are "jealous little men who hide themselves under the skirts of the cloak of scholarship?" No, Professor, we do not believe that after the few Jews and liberals depart the German faculties that only fools are left. The Jews and the liberals did not alone make Germany great...
...characters in this story are two--a Freshman Proctor and a lady guest. Having invited the young lady to the graduate dance at Radcliffe and finding the affair extremely boring he very gallantly suggested they depart to more pleasanter surroundings--his room in the Yard. Returning rather late that evening the young lady when questioned by her friends explained where she had been. Asked what had kept her so late, she replied, "the Freshmen were having a fire drill and I was left for a long time alone in the room." And do the Freshmen have fire drills...
...give you, therefore, this information so far in advance that you may dust off your bifocals and add a restricting clause to pressing contracts. You never can tell when the boys from West Haverstraw will start undraping, or when Mrs. Coolidge will depart chastely from Northampton. That sturdy village will present henceforth even greater inducements than in the past. And it will be interesting to see to what extremes the earnest debaters will carry their persuasions. We don't want to discourage these worthy fellows, but, personally we prefer to leave any experiments in the realm of nudity...
...recognize, of course, that in order to do justice to me as an individual it would be necessary for you to depart from one of the basic policies of your publication, notwithstanding which fact I am entertaining the belief that your American spirit of fair play will get the better of your prejudices...