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...Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770 has telegraphed the Yale football coach, Herman Hickman, asking for the loan of an English bulldog for Thursday night's opening of the club's show, "Buddha Knows Best...
Percy Julian, a proud, energetic man of 51, stood his ground and served notice that his family would move into the house by New Year's Day. He hired (for $36 a day) a private, round-the-clock guard to patrol the property with bulldog and shotgun. "We've lived through these things all our lives," said Percy Julian. "As far as the hurt to the spirit goes, we've become accustomed to that...
...Ollie to right of him, but with little of the background which might be deemed necessary for hog-tying a whole generation. He shudders at western music (particularly when sung by his principal rivals, Roy Rogers and Gene Autry), has never branded a cow or mended a fence, cannot bulldog a steer. Though he has learned to ride competently enough, he would rather see his Nielsen rating drop (last week's: 34.8) than climb aboard a rodeo bronc...
...rumor had seeped out that Handsome Dan H, Yale's mascot, had been kidnapped. A bulldog, clutched by two young men with caps pulled low over their eyes, had reportedly been seen in a Chrysler roadster that was speeding north toward Boston and Cambridge...
Yale's mascot tradition started unofficially in 1890, when freshman Andrew B. Graves '92 brought a bulldog to school that had won more than 1,000 prizes in this country and abroad. The dog became a great favorite with Yale men. Before long he was being led across the field at all football contests...