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...nothing more discouraging to slaving students, especially in the larger halls, to see a little knot of proctors standing in a corner of the room after the books have been given out rehearsing together their last week-end on the North Shore or trip to Revere for the roller-coaster. This sort of proctorial whispering, even though it may be a dull job to loaf about for three hours watching others pour out their heart's blood, is clearly a breach of trust. Memorial Hall, where it is possible to congregate beside the blackboards at the entrance, has been particularly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE THE POLICE | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...that the exercise has been removed from the game of the Viking, what remains is little more exciting than a trip on the roller coaster at Revere--the speed, twists, and turns are even less threatening. The only distinguishing feature is the pleasure, If such it be, of exposing all the most valued parts of the anatomy to fracture and contusion, subject to the whim, not of some human opponent, as in the great game of football, but of Newton's three laws. There is a savage pleasure in kicking the opposing tackle in the face, but one can only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Off Key | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...Mary with a high heart and the assistance, as best man, of his friend Bill Hallam (Ian Hunter) who had also loved her with dogged devotion. Bill stuck to his role as friend of the family, while Jock and Mary went careening up & down the economic and emotional roller-coaster on which the rest of the world was riding. Bill saw them have their first epochal quarrel, on the way home from the Tunney-Dempsey fight in Philadelphia, and knew that they were fighting fundamentally because Mary wanted to get more fun out of life while Jock wanted to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 10, 1936 | 8/10/1936 | See Source »

...racketeers, gives a fair imitation of Chaplin's famed characterization of a peewee battling gaily against overwhelming destiny. The last third of the picture is a chase in the classic Keystone tradition, starting when the racketeers, dressed in policemen's uniforms, pursue Eddie Pink around a roller coaster, and ending when Eddie and his Greek bodyguard (Parkya-karkus) find themselves trapped in a captive balloon. Eddie escapes by falling into an acrobats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 27, 1936 | 1/27/1936 | See Source »

Several other colleges have met the situation by introducing "big-time" football and placing it on a professional basis. As a result, gate receipts and educational endowments have gone hand in hand. The H.A.A. quite evidently intends to quit the roller coaster. John Harvard's athletes cannot let their legs get caught in the stocks of athletic receipts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETIC INSURANCE | 4/11/1935 | See Source »

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