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“I want to go to Princeton,” said Amory. “I don’t know why, but I think
of all Harvard men as sissies, like I used to be, and all Yale men as
wearing big blue sweaters and smoking pipes.”
Monsignor chuckled.
“I’m one, you know.”
“Oh, you’re different — I think of Princeton as being lazy and
good-looking and aristocratic — you know, like a spring day. Harvard
seems sort of indoors — ”
“And Yale is November, crisp and energetic,” finished Monsignor.
“That’s it.”
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Princeton X ‘17, This Side of Paradise
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Boy, I sure could use a coat like that on a day like today. I bet those are really warm. They can keep the Yale sweater. Sissies.
ReplyDeleteso...those yale boys have, in fact, become sissies.
ReplyDeleteGiven the sorry PC state of educa... indoctrination, I'd have to guess 'smoking pipes'.
ReplyDeleteLt. Col. Gen. Tailgunner dick
"By wearing a raccoon coat, college football star Red Grange, right, helped to launch a campus craze."
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Given the state of university education today, I would have thought the word "energetic" would cause fits.
ReplyDeleteHow many raccoons had to die to make those coats? Good thing PETA and other such foolishness wasn't around back then.
ReplyDelete"How many raccoons had to die to make those coats?"
ReplyDeleteNot nearly enough.
Second from the right---is that George Costanza?
ReplyDeleteBetter to be silent and be thought a sissy than to complain and prove it.
ReplyDeleteI'm with the ol' Tailgunner,
ReplyDeleteI thought it would'a been pipes.
Evidently, "sissies" is offensive only to sissies.