Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as old Bull Collegians prepared to "go down" from Cambridge, they ate a final dinner with Provost Sheppard and other masters. Main course: Southern fried chicken...
That settled it. For the sake of proctors' dignity, there had to be a way to distinguish G.I.s studying at Bull College, Cambridge, from mere G.I. sightseers. Soon the Bull boys were wearing a special patch on their lower right sleeves-a coat of arms featuring the Stars & Stripes, the Union Jack, the Cambridge Lions, the American Eagle and the Bull of Bull College. Master Sergeant Al Kohler, an inveterate doodler, hit on the design...
White-haired Dr. John T. Sheppard, Provost of King's College, had given the G.I. College its name. Noting that most of the G.I.s had been quartered in the famed old Bull Hotel, because Cambridge's colleges were overcrowded he told the students and U.S. Army Major George Dewey Blank, their boss: "As the word 'Hotel' sounds so very undignified, I just call you simply 'Bull College.' And you, Major Blank, I refer to as the 'Big Bull...
Major Blank liked the names, and so did the 149 students, from private to colonel, who attended the Army's first eight-week session at Cambridge. By the second term, Bull even had its old school tie (royal blue with embroidered gold bull's head). Last week, at graduation, the Army announced that there would be no third term: men could no longer be spared from depleted ETO forces. Also closing: the G.I. paradise, Biarritz American University and the G.I. Swiss University...
...Bull alumni, who had been in on a good thing, were sorry to be the last of their line. They came, like the Army itself, from all over the U.S.-whites and Negroes, officers and enlisted men, and one nurse and one WAC (TIME, March 11). There was no saluting; all ranks were billeted together, first in the Bull Hotel (run by the Red Cross) and the colleges, later in Army huts...