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Speaking as a graduate student in Harvard, it seems most inappropriate that any group of men in a university of this size and importance should attempt to clog in the least degree the machinery of good-will existing among the graduates of so many other schools of learning. It is true unfortunately that the opportunities for social intercourse between graduate students are much restricted by the unusually heavy work assigned them, but this fact is in itself a reason for making the few opportunities that exist as pleasant as possible. Princeton sends a large number...

Author: By J. F. Hamill., | Title: REAPING THE WHIRLWIND | 11/11/1926 | See Source »

...these instruments along with piccolos, trumpets, trombones, saxaphones, and drums are used in the Banja Club. The Gold Coast Orchestra is made up of a select group of players to provide the dance music for after the concerts. The Specialty Division offers ample opportunities for first rate vaudeville acts. Clog dancing, juggling, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing, along with xylophone, Hawaiian guitar, ukelele, and accordian playing are desirable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS OPEN TRIALS TONIGHT | 9/28/1926 | See Source »

...toxin (poison) which diffuses through the system even more quickly than the germ itself. The peculiar effect of the streptococci pyogenes is to cause fever, although in some cases, especially in wounds, it forms pus. If they get into the lungs by way of the blood they clog the bronchioles, the tiny air passages, and so give one form of bronchopneumonia. They frequently are secondary invaders in diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox. In septicemia, bacterial blood poisoning, these germs may snake along to the heart, where they fasten themselves to the inner heart membranes; or they may grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Erysipelas | 3/29/1926 | See Source »

...specialty Division, novelty acts and instruments of unusual variety will be considered. Such acts would include clog dancing, sleight of hand, ventriloquism, crayon drawing. Xylophone, accordion, Hawaian guitar, saw, and the like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS TO HOLD MID-WINTER TRIALS | 2/5/1926 | See Source »

...addition to the regular dancing and festivities, there are to be presented during supper a number of special attractions, including a clog dance by G. B. Moynahan '26 and J. H. S. Moynahan '21, a presentation by the three Bragiotti sisters, and piano accordion selections by an Italian artist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circolo to Hold Ball | 5/8/1925 | See Source »

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