Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is No Cow...
Other traditions have been allowed to die. Professor Copeland, as Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, is allowed to keep a cow in the Yard; but unfortunately he does not do so. To serenade the Professors' daughters and pretty girls of Cambridge is no longer an fait. Still other customs remain in altered from. There is still a tree orator on Class Day, though there is no tree. And the confettl battle in the Stadium on the same day is but the mild aftermath of the great struggle around the tree. In the space which now composes the Bollis-Harvard...
...able-bodied Irish matrons, Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Callahan, hurl garbled Hibernian-English at each other over a backyard fence. They grab at each other's hair, throw pots and pans. They swat their children, who make love in cow-like fashion and threaten to entangle the two families in matrimonial alliances. In the end, of course, the children do get married...
...Johnson did the photographing. His wife, an expert shot, stood by with high-powered rifle. On one occasion, a cow elephant became distrustful of Mr. Johnson's maneuvers, charged him. Pretty Mrs. Johnson stopped the irate female with a bullet squarely between the eyes?only a few feet from the camera...
...Geneva, N. Y., Lady Orange, famed campus cow at Hobart College, walked round and round a stake to which she was tethered, strangled herself...