Word: bumpings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other hand, he is intelligent and sensitive, he will find, clinging to Oxford like the thick leaves along its walls, a glory that is green in every year. He will soon walk without nervousness and without arrogance along its tonsured lawns. He will drink, perhaps, at bump suppers until he has become intoxicated. On his individual behavior as on the particular behavior of his 31 merry or pious, ugly or presentable, agile or clumsy, drunken or abstaining, riotous or serene companions, will depend the success of this latest batch of U. S. scholars in Oxford...
...Whiting '28, head usher, will be assisted by: H. W. Bragdon '28, W. N. Bump '28, E. F. Clark '28, W. B. S. Clymer '29, T. Flint '29, F. B. Thurbor '30, A. R. Hawes '28, R. B. O'R. Hocking '28, C. H. Norris '29, K. A. Perry '28, LeB. H. Sparrow '28, and R. A. Stout...
Another competition for memberships in the club will be conducted in the spring, according to W.N. Bump '28, president of the organization. Those who will be initiated next Monday are; W.C. Atwater '28, C.D. Breckinridge '31, T.W. Dunn '31, R.R. Forester '30, A.T. Hartwell '29, C.E. Henderson '28, Sargent Kennedy '28, D.M. Leith '29, M. McKay '31, J.I. Pool '28, I.T. Williams '31, and J.R. Wood...
...object of the head boat to row over without being bumped, and of those behind it to bump the boat in front of them. When a boat has passed the finishing-post it cannot be bumped. Bumping consists in touching the boat ahead with some portion of your boat usually, of course, the bows of one boat bump the stern of the other. As soon as a bump has been made both boats draw into the side, and later paddle up to the barges when the crews behind them have passed by. On the next day each starts where...
...impossible to see, means ruin. But he knows his boat and can tell from the feel what is happening. At last there is a slight jolt and the cox ahead rises his hand. But it is a tremendous relief to all when "easy all' follows the bump and one place higher on the river has been reached in safety...