Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commissioner Bert Bell of the National Football League last week offered a radical suggestion for scoring the professional game: eliminate the point after touchdown and score each touchdown as seven points. As it is, said Bell, the extra point is a "waste of time"; by eliminating it, "we will do away with the one-point spread in which gamblers are so much interested." In case of a tie game he proposed an extra "sudden-death" period at the end of the four conventional quarters. After a scoreless extra period, a tie would presumably be called...
Although white shoes in a country club may symbolize the Princeton man to Harvard undergraduates, to the sons of old Nassau Princeton means perhaps more than anything else a jumble of queer and extraneous traditions. Bell clappers, cannon, haircuts, and "dinks" all are words whose significance makes the nostalgic Tiger grad's heart warm, and causes him to chuckle and slap his thigh at the thought of his gay college years...
Perhaps the best-known of these traditions is the annual bell-clapper escapade. Every fall as early as possible the freshman class is allowed to steal the clapper of the hell in Nassau Hall's tower in order to prevent it from tolling the hours of classes. If there is no bell, then there are no classes...
...great honor to be among the group that steals the bell, competition is hard between various bunches of freshmen to see who can carry off the prize first. The University doesn't mind the theft once a year, although the proctors and campus cops keep a sharp eye out and apprehend anyone they can who acts even faintly suspicious near the tower. To elude the watchful constabulary and get the clapper is every Tiger cub's dream...
...left--the mechanism of the clock. Without clapper, works or hands the Nassau Hall tower could neither strike the hour nor even point the time. This was not the first time however, that something other than the clapper had been tampered with. Back in the nineties freshmen upturned the bell, poured boiling water in it, and let it freeze, cracking the bell, and thus stopping the ringing for the year...