Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Something well worth staying away from is the annual Wet Down ceremony in the spring. The senior class forms a double column across the commons and all the juniors, sophomores, freshmen, and campus wheels in that order run the gauntlet of flailing leather belts. As each bruised figure reaches the end of the line, he joins in to wreak vengeance on those behind. "Thus do freshmen become sophomores," writes the Daily Dartmouth...
...outstanding ambition at the present stage of his life--never to be quoted by a newspaper reporter. Faced with this impasse the material for this column was gathered with some sparring and tilting. The quest for truth was not enhanced by Bob's quiet, modest nature when discussing his past. Some people, for instance, think 175 pounds is light for pro football. When asked, Bob admitted that he might have been a little lighter than average, but he added that he outweighed his running mates, McLean and McAfee...
...stopped in the courts either by an appeal from this decision, by an application of the Taft-Hartley secondary or unfair labor practices provisions, or on the basis of some new law not yet on the statues; but proceedings will, in all probability, never get that far. The fifth column activity of those unwilling to let foreign and non-union recording musicians make hay in fields that used to be theirs ought to do the trick...
...them and, according to Stanley's story, more than one Zanzibari "disappeared into the cooking pot." He also described butterflies flying overhead in clouds, "some taking hours to pass"; beetles boring into the tent poles and showering sawdust into the soup. Natives shot poisoned arrows at the passing column, "baboons howled within the darkness . . . and . . . herds of hippopotami grunted thunderously" along the river...
Which brings us to the essence of this column. The question is not how Harvard lost a football game 47 to 0 or how the University of Virginia won a football game 47 to 0, but what the Cavaliers said to each other in the huddle...