Word: bowl
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conflict it was expected that this song could be resumed. However, unforeseen difficulties arose. The inflow of prominent Allied visitors made it impossible on many occasions for the Elis to sing their college anthem. Of most vidid memory to Harvard men is the game in the Bowl two years ago when M. Clemenceau was the cause of "For God, for country, and for Yale" being sung mentally...
Sound and timely are the words of the Yale president in his annual report. The impossibility of meeting demands for tickets for the more important football games "even with the huge resources of the Yale bowl," leads "inevitably to some question regarding the part which these contests have come to play in our academic life...
...Hill: "I wish the gentleman and his colleagues from Georgia would stand up on the floor of the House and take the pledge which the gentleman from Georgia wants us to take, never again to touch the flowing bowl, legal or illegal. When they do that I shall follow them and give up rum until we modify the Volstead...
Last year there were 339,816 people who saw the game, but the difference may almost all be accounted for by the huge size of the Yale Bowl where the Yale game was played last year...
...stiff resistance among the college papers, Yale managed to keep his great book, "The New Fraternity", still in manuscript; in manuscript until the heroic author "deluged both the Yale faculty and the undergraduates" with cards. Apparently this injection had its desired effect for by showing Yale that its Bowl was a place where "mothers and fathers, sisters, classmates, alumni will cheer and shout and scream to drown the misery of their aching, mangled, bleeding sons and brothers", Mr. Gundelfinger has made Yale lose its grip--except, of course, for victories over Princeton and Harvard this year...