Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...insiders want to hook up the Roosevelt administration with the demise of the Crimson nine. Wild rumors now in the air say that President Roosevelt became suddenly solicitous of his international relations and sent a hurry-up radiogram to Coach Chauncey et cle. telling him to take it a bit easy. After winning five straight games in Hawaii, one can see that things looked pretty gloomy for peaceful relations with Japan...
...winning ball team with geisha girls and have a winning ball team left. And when you add a dash of fried eels for lunch and a bit of raw fish for dinner, the result is appalling. That was another thing that was bound to threw a nine off its stride. They say that you could get cooked food but it consisted of fish heads with the eye-balls served up as a delicacy. Even roast prime ribs of beef an just would have been welcome...
Fine Arts: "Les Trols Mousquetaires"--a good version of Dumas' perpetual story of chivalry and adventure at the court of Louis XIII. A bit too long and somewhat confusing since all the characters look amazingly alike...
...legs & socks much in evidence this year. Lest snobbery or cliquishness raise its head. Wellesley charges the same for all dormitory rooms, assigns them by lot. Priding itself on a well-rounded life, Wellesley is inclined to think Bryn Mawr and Mount Holyoke rather grindish. Smith and Vassar a bit too social. A song often heard on chapel steps...
...normal environment. There, say champions of separate colleges, they are distracted and dominated by men, miss the separate college's stimulus to leadership and a vigorous intellectual life. Says President Marion Edwards Park of Bryn Mawr: "Segregation at the college age doesn't hurt a bit. It teaches an appreciation of each other sadly lacking in women who have no chance to see their sex in control. The absence of sexual and social pressure is an intellectual advantage rather than a liability...