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...other hand, the Harvard view of a college football game may be ahead of the times. If this is true, Harvard should do all it can to spread the new gospel. There should be regular boo-leaders and better, organized booing. There should be a set of Harvard boos even as songs and cheers now exist. For any such book of boos, the following might serve as a model...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Boo! Boo! Boo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...Boo! Boo! Boo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...After the game I wanted to meet you and also get your autograph, but circumstances prevented it. (Boo hoo!--'I'm not crying, that's rain in my eyes'). You know something--I've always been an ardent Navy fan in the past, but now suddenly find myself following the Yales. What's the answer? ('Can it be the gypsy in my soul...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Men Jealous of Heroes Of Gridiron, Letter Reveals | 10/21/1938 | See Source »

...themselves to be pitifully chivvied, hounded into hounding impoverished clients. A Metropolitan agent in New York City, Benjamin Klein, testified that his district manager punished him for lagging sales by making him don a dunce cap inscribed, "I am lousy, I am a louse," required 456 assembled agents to boo him. Scores of others swore that similar stimulants were commonly used by the three companies, complained particularly that agents were penalized for unavoidable lapses in old policies, finally induced the New York and Massachusetts Legislatures to curb that practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Dunces Capped | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

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