Word: crosswords
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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Trash readers, comic-strip fanatics, crossword puzzlers, gum-chewers are satisfied by the noises which may be transmitted to them over the ether. But even in their case, and though they delight in listening in on Presidential speeches, football games, ball games, jazzy funnymen, first aid lectures, bed-time stories and advice to mothers, their interest is thus aroused in their newspapers. They delight in reading what they have heard. Many of Mr. Rose's friends told him that radio has made them read the newspaper accounts more eagerly. More critically...
John Harvard will glare at the Yale bulldog across the black and white squares of a crossword puzzle diagram at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York City on January 4, according to press dispatches from New York. This announcement follows close on the heels of plans just given out to have the University and Yale meet on squash courts for the first time in history...
Yale has announced John Farrar and Stephen Vincent as her crossword team, but a canvass of likely persons both at Harvard and Wellesley failed to reveal any one aware of this new departure in intercollegiate competition. The New York contests are to be staged for the benefit of the Bryn Mawr Music Foundation and the City Music League of New York...
Though Princeton's use of crossword conundrums is new in university methods, the cross-word principle has long been employed at Harvard in those delightfully risque little pamphlets: "Notes on the Choice of Electives", "Rules Relating to College Studies", and the more popular editions of "Courses of Instruction". Not until their fourth year of residence do students learn the interesting knack of reading them so as to discover any meaning at all. Even then, the hazards of starred courses and of courses omitted year in and year out supply difficulties enough to make results both entertaining and uncertain...
...world's championship crossword puzzle contests, the early rounds are played on paper, the finals on large blackboards...