Pahk the cah in Hahvuhd Yahd (1976); Joe College 1934)

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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=496464
Published on Wednesday, April 26, 1978
You Can't Pahk Yah Cah In Hahvahd Yahd, But...
Harvard BHCU EXPIRES AUG. 31, 1978


http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=496413
Published on Monday, October 31, 1977
Them Ol' Walking Blues
Union Dues By John Sayles Little, Brown, $9.95, 385 pp.
(...)
But lest you think this is a story of radical baiting in Cambridge,
circa 1969--which is easy enough to do--it's not. Sayles has an
astoundingly accurate ear for speech, in this case the speech of
20-year old Americans in 1969 trying to sound like Lenin in Zurich in
1917. Skillfully interwoven with the story of Hunter McNatt's search
for his son are also the stories of people who run across one or the
other along the way, and their speech is wonderfully correct. Vinny and
Dom, his Boston cops, are a little too pat ("Pahk the cah in Hahvahd
Yahd") but they still sound, well, like Boston cops. Sayles also
captures the peculiar accents of Appalachia, especially the banter of
men who work hard, as when one tells another, "You're so ugly you have
to tie a pork chop around your neck just to git the dawg to play with
you."


http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=111863
Published on Monday, November 15, 1976
Lies My Father Told Me
Setting the Record Straight On Age-Olde Harvard Myths
(...)
PAHK THE CAAH IN HAHVAHD YAHD--This little ditty mimicking the nuances
of the Boston accent is based upon a mistaken notion that few
non-Harvard people realize. Any vehicle parked in the Yard for an
extended period of time--as a great many Harvard students can
attest--will be towed away.


http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=498880
Published on Friday, January 19, 1940
HAWVUHD - HAVUHD - HEVEHD MIXTURE MAKES YAHD ACCENT

No writer attributed

"There are no less than three pronunciations of 'the broad A',"
Frederick C. Packard, associate professor of English, made public this
week in a classification of "the Harvard accent."

There are three types of accents, Packard disclosed. First there is the
broad A, or Hawvuhd group, comprising Back Bay and Park Avenue youths
with a prep school background.

Second is the flatter A, or Hahvuhd, group, made up of Greater Boston
boys of Irish-American stock. The third, a "namby-pamby"' Hehvehd group
is composed of Middle Western youths who believe that this is the
correct pronunciation before they ever come within earshot of the
Memorial Hall bells.

The true Harvard accent is a combination of these three, according to
Packard. "It does not originate here but is brought in by
undergraduates."

The "Yahd" accent is not unpleasant as is claimed, he asserted. "It's
all right to say 'cawn't' and 'bawth' if it is done in a nice, musical
tone," he stated.


 http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=451637
Published on Friday, June 08, 1934
THE PRESS
A Few Ralls

(...)
Yale snobbishness is not necessarily an attitude of rankling
superiority. It is the snobbishness of indifference. Members of small
and congenial groups, whether they be actually superior or inferior,
are satisfied to stay within those groups. Any effort to break those
bounds by forced congeniality to outsiders is dubbed "Joe College."


(OCLC WORLDCAT)
Title:
Three Gloucester plays /

Author(s):
Horovitz, Israel.

Publication:
Garden City, NY : Fireside Theatre,

Year:
1992

Description:
viii, 279 p., [8] p. of plates : ports. ; 22 cm.

Language:
English

Contents:
Park your car in Harvard Yard -- Henry Lumper -- North Shore fish.