Word: alarums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Allah is great Hui juxtaposition is greater" runs an old proverb, and it was with a similar thought in mind that the Cambridge police and fire chiefs cast glowering looks around the Gold Coast and the Lampoon Building, upon the occasion of a false alarum rung in, on the alarum box standing besides the Jester's tree at 11.20 0'clock last night...
...leading position is given to an article by Walter D. Edmonds, Jr., called "The Gum-Didderators of Football." Besides the tocsin sound of the title, the author provides a further alarum by the use of "jugglingatoriums" in the third paragraph. The problem of the importance of the game of football in the program of American higher education is a vexed one; Mr. Edmonds' distinguishing contribution to the discussion is a decree that "big" games are all right--because they have some part in the prevention of hardening of alumni arteries but that they should be kept among friends and neighbors...