Word: wade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Competing in the first eliminations of the Boylston and Lee Wade Elocution Contests, thirty four students will speak this afternoon in Emerson D. The declamations will commence promptly at 1 o'clock and will continue throughout the afternoon...
Four prizes will be awarded at the final contest. The Lee Wade Prize of $50, the First Boylston Prize of $50, and the Second Boylston Prizes of $35 each...
...bring even very small mountains to our Mohammed. For many years feeling has run high against the age-old Harvard custom of promotions on the basis of academic seniority. In the past, slow indeed has been the rise to fame of the young mind. He has had to wade patiently through a series of one and three year appointments before he may grace the ranks of even the assistant professors. He has had to publish works of supposed scholastic merit which have been deemed essential to admit him to the fellowship of learned men. Many of these treatises have received...
...doubt were removed. I should hesitate to disturb the peace in which the "superannuated professors" broad in one of their few stamping grounds. For these professors and their opinions have a real value as Early Americana, and I have always suffered from the collector's passion. H. M. Wade...
...cheek, but it is open to a more serious interpretation as a statement of the author's real opinion. As such it is a prize example of that absurd undergraduate pomposity which has reduced so-called Undergraduate Opinion to a negligible factor outside the college world. Does Mr. Wade realize that he is merely making a fool of himself--that even an experienced literary critic of mature age and opinions could not make such a statement with impunity...