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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bottle Night" is an annual Yale clean-up demonstration. Dormitory inmates assemble at opened casements to hurl the season's collection of bottles, kickshaws, flotsam and jetsam out on the campus to be carted away the following morning...
Last week's outcry at Oxford bears a close resemblance to the events which preceded Dr. Buchman's expulsion from the campus of Princeton, four years ago. At Oxford, however, there are perhaps not more than 75 Buchmanites of whom several are dons. After the outcry, the authorities made no move, undergraduates exhibited a lackadaisical approval, and Buchmanites continued to hold their "morning watches," and to move in their mysterious ways...
...things when the first knell of all the college humor in College Humor was pealed. Eight comics of the West Coast, led by the Stanford Chaparral and the California Pelican, made declarations of independence announcing that because the great faith of humor had been broken and the college campus represented as a place of flasks and caresses, they would no longer permit College Humor to reprint their funnin...
Last fortnight, there was furious activity on the Thacher campus. Boys and girls, women and William Tatem Tilden II were playing and watching tennis from seven in the morning until seven in the evening. It was an annual affair; in previous years Maurice E. ("Red Comet'') McLaughlin, William ("Little Bill") Johnston, Mary K. Browne, May Sutton Bundy (who won the women's singles for the eleventh time), and many another little Sutton and Bundy had battled for the Ojai challenge cups...
...Harvard seniors specializing in English. They were not allowed to help each other, but the smoking of cigarets was permitted. They sat in old Connecticut Hall, where Patriot Nathan Hale once roomed. On the Yale team were eight Phi Beta Kappa men, one dark horse and John Knox Jessup, campus wit, who last autumn wrote on his page in the Yale Alumni Weekly: "Harvard men cannot be said to aim at, for they essentially are, good form...