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...doubtful if it will attract any readers who do not already agree with the premises assumed by the AYD. Geoff White and Bill Labov in their misleading account of the Club 100 incident of last year go out of their way to take a slap at clubmen: "The club men form a very definite class of dwindling importance at Harvard, who only occasionally come out of their isolated routine to demonstrate their vicious and decayed mentalities." This same article demonstrates the authors' impatience and scorn for any methods of reform which do not embody publicity, action, and conflict. Their abhorrence...
...hours later, when all the clubbing and drubbing was over, the college boys had bowed to the clubmen. The flashiest player on the field was not a collegian or a graduate, but 17-year-old Billy Hooper, who looked out of place among his nine older Mount Washington teammates, but was right at home in the tussling. Hooper made half of his team's goals, scored the point that broke a tie 2½ minutes before the game's end. Score: Mount Washington 6, Johns Hopkins...
Fairly certain to make the squad, according to Barclay, are Bill Rickenbacker, Walter Butler, who played on last year's informal team, Tyke Wilcox, Bob Orr, and Lawrence Kinnicutt. All of these clubmen have been breaking into the seventies more or less consistently...
...Three Clubmen. Many of their routines are now remembered by Broadway's elder denizens with a nostalgia like their memories of Barrymore's Hamlet or Lillian Russell's corsetry. There was, for example, the team's greeting to customers who were also their personal friends...
...Manhattan's Durand-Ruel Galleries visitors could look upon Adolphe William Bouguereau's nearly 12-ft. masterpiece, Nymphs and Satyr. A quartet of ripe, naked maidens prancing around a preoccupied faun was for 24 years the despair of Victorian moralists and the delight of the clubmen who crowded Manhattan's Hoffman House...