Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distinction between the jock and the athlete," he replied, insisting that the implications of the loaded term "jock" unduly smear many valuable citizens and serious students who happen to participate in athletics. Only a handful of students qualify for the unattractive term "jock", Owen noted, declaring that too many gentlemen get lumped together and become identified with the reputations and actions of the few--a strikingly small minority. "I suppose there are a few students who never should have been admitted," Wilbur J. Bender '27, former Dean of Admissions, said in a recent interview. "But they are very rare indeed...
...typical freshman arrived and took refuge in a large and homely Union, where "Copey" held forth in an upstairs lounge, explaining that he taught in "the finest gentlemen's library in the world." But the freshman was reminded of the sick world beyond that sanctum when Leverett Saltonstall 'I4, then speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, told him: "We are in the midst of our difficulties. To solve our problems we need the ability, the courage of you gentlemen and others who are entering colleges...
This unfortunate ignorant person took to a panty girdle journal to berate the Harvard crack pots, the gentlemen and the scholars. I hope you will follow the medieval example of my day when I was Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and send all the candidates out to confiscate this journal and cremate all copies available in the Punch Bowl and put the fire out with good beer...
...before the continuously magnificent performance of Bogey, Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains. The plot is insignificant; Peter Lorre is dead before the plot truly gets underway--but, mes chers, when, defying the Nazis, the entire cast bursts spontaneously and glorously into the Marseillaise, how marvellous it all is. That, gentlemen, is great movie-making. Evenings...
...modeled on All Souls. The school was not always respected; the 18th century All Souls degenerated into "a charmed circle of county families," where fellowships were sold for cash and the college porter once aptly remarked that "they've no call to read books-they're all gentlemen...