Word: bulldogging
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...unless Richard Cresson Harlow can dupe the Bulldog for four quarter instead of last year's one, it looks like Yale will take the title. For the Quakers, again forsaking their cloistered neighbors for redder meat, would have only four successful appearances to match Eli's six (with Brown, Princeton, and Harvard being serviced the next three weeks...
Thanks just the same, girls; but it's no use. Even without our glasses, we can see the handwriting. We can still feel the wound of two years back when one of our boys sold for fifty cents and an uneducated bulldog sold for six dollars. Twice we have entered the arena, filled with boyish selfconfidence. Twice, in the true spirit of free enterprise, we have backed our product in the open market. And twice we have had to retreat to the lofty protection of our ivied walls, thoroughly whipped, quaking neurotically...
Yale Professor (of geography) Ellsworth Huntington was short (5 ft. 2 in.), with an exceptionally large, bald head. He was so deaf that he could study unconcerned while the University band umpahed on the same floor of Hendrie Hall and the Glee Club bellowed "Bulldog" directly below him. While the 1938 hurricane was shredding the elms and overturning New Haven's trolley cars, Professor Huntington worked away on a manuscript; he did not realize what was going on until it was all over. The experience buttressed one of his favorite theories: that the human intellect works best...
...week's end, the average restaurant operator was developing ulcers, anxiety and severe tension. Most of them piously -and some even happily-guaranteed compliance. Hollywood's phony prince, Restaurateur Mike Romanoff (who sometimes allows his bulldog to sit up at the table with him and eat meat), said: "I will do anything to avoid the horrors of rationing." Some did it glumly. Manhattan's famed steak house, Gallagher's, closed on Tuesday, ran a newspaper ad which read:, "No Steaks, No Gallagher's." But in most cases it was not quite that simple...
Gordon Davis, the Bulldog second baseman, is Yale's best batter, with an EIL average of .421, while Artie Moher, the Blue shortstop, is one of the best infielders in the East...