Word: bulldog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland." The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap. When, at 10 o'clock one night, the Harkness bells clanged out "Bulldog, Bulldog," the results were more or less predictable. Frosh surged out of dormitories like beer from a sprung keg, and began pitching snowballs. Brawlers leaked over locked gates and through classroom buildings into the streets, made a token charge at that often-bloodied Manassas of Yale riots, the Hotel Taft...
...gentle hand reaches for Christ's in a gesture of sympathy. The ironclad warrior, who is about to jam the huge prongs upon Christ's head, seems caught up and driven by some outward imperative of duty even as his lips tighten in remorse. The bulldog-faced assailant who tears at Christ's robe might also be gesturing in supplication. The German scholar Wilhelm Franger contends that Bosch was really a free-spirited nature worshiper; if so, the message of The Crowning might be that man acts through compulsions that are beyond his control. Or perhaps Bosch...
Still ahead for the team are the Harvard-Yale-Princeton Slalom on April 4 and the Harvard-Dartmouth meet on April 19. The skiers will be favored in the Big Three meet at North Conway, N.H., when acting coach Richard Eliot's skiers take on small Bulldog and Tiger teams...
Switching from its 2-1-2 zone into a full-court press, the varsity climbed to within 7, and then 6 points of the Elis. But on too many occasions a Bulldog strayed from his defender to score on an easy lay-up, and Yale held on to the lead. With a minute to play, the Elis led, 80 to 68, and realizing that it was all over, coach Floyd Wilson replaced his starters, who received a well-deserved ovation...
Both girls are tall (about 5 ft. 10 in., 145 Ibs.), trim brunettes. Lefthander Betty has the stronger game, Peggy the greater finesse. "She's like a bulldog," says Peggy of Betty's play. "She drives in under an opponent's racket or swings without regard for anything but hitting the ball. I'm daintier. I play a softer game...