Definitions
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- adjective Of or relating to Harvard University,
Massachusetts , USA. - noun One who attends Harvard University.
Etymologies
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Examples
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"I feel proud knowing that my daughter's last drunken act of intercourse was with a Harvardian," said a mother who labeled herself as a "former slutty daughter."
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The quotes allow you, the reader, to judge for yourself whether the description of views provided here is right or wrong (and so is, in regard to principle applicable in a different context, quite the opposite of the Harvardian and other plagiarism (and intellectual theft) so often decried in these postings because they inherently mislead as to authorship and are thus implicitly inaccurate).
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Come to meet me, stay to hear Orson Scott Card or play Scrabble with a Harvardian.
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So all too often, the subsequent conversation degenerates into a cutesy guessing game, with the Harvardian giving more and more evasive answers until the questioner loses all patience and shouts, “What — did you go to Harvard or something?”
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Now, to any Harvardian, that automatically declares that the speaker went to Harvard; people who went to MIT or Tufts tend to say so.
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So all too often, the subsequent conversation degenerates into a cutesy guessing game, with the Harvardian giving more and more evasive answers until the questioner loses all patience and shouts, “What — did you go to Harvard or something?”
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Now, to any Harvardian, that automatically declares that the speaker went to Harvard; people who went to MIT or Tufts tend to say so.
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Yalensians, already established there, made his lot easier, and they combined against a lone Harvardian, who bitterly resented Harwood's habit of smoking a cob pipe in the library at night.
A Hoosier Chronicle Meredith Nicholson 1906
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Now he returned, a tall, well-formed Harvardian, as careful as a woman in the matter of dress, very refined in his manners.
Vandover and the Brute Frank Norris 1886
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The professor - a Harvard PhD and didn't we hear THAT a dozen times during each class, prompting us to ask each other just WHAT a lah-di-darn-dah Harvardian was doing teaching at a NJ State college??!
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