Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Peddler Yearbook (Worcester, MA)

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to be a TECHMAX in boston may get you a good laugh, but in Worcester you get two shirts cleaned free, here he is more es- teemed and distinguished than is a har- vard man, a yale man, an oxford man, or a neandertlial man. even the metabolism of the tech life has its prestige ratings, for example, when a cross man is sick, people immediately assume he is drunk, when the TECHMAX is drunk, people assume he is sick.

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tech is co mmensurate not only with the worcesterian soul but with the entire new england mystique, the TECHMAN ' S man- ner of speech, dress, the freshness and candor of his physiognomy, his deathless attachment to independence, his aversion to anything abstract or indecorous, his self- esteem and self-pity, his curious tempera- ment all tend to dissolve a starched social system.

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when the lady knows he ' s from the hill, there isn ' t anything she won ' t do for the TECHMAN. in the same light of loyalty, waitresses and cabbies refuse tips from the gentleman in the Worcester tech sweatshirt, even the police will overlook the illegally parked cars distinguished by the w.p.i. decals. it seems as if the hand of John boynton ' s ghost just reaches out to the tumid heart of Worcester squeezing endless drops of the sweet balsamic juices of love.