Word: crystalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...having heavy weather of it, even with all the money and facilities he was able to command. But as is always the case, failure only served to spur on the real dyed-in-the-wool enthusiast. When the queer properties of a piece of galena ore, or a crystal of silicon, carborundum and several other minerals was discovered, feeble little signals were occasionally heard, and this sealed the fate of many young men. They were able to communicate with each other at rare intervals over short distances, and once in a while heard some of the large Marconi stations...
...orchestra. This is unique in college productions. The best songs of the show are "Bad Boy", both the words and music by W. B. Leach Jr. '21, the author of the play, and the hero; "Isle in the China Sea," the closing chorus of the first act; and the "Crystal Song," which is sung by M. H. Dill 1S.L.A. These have been recorded on a double-disk phonograph record, which is on sale at all performances of the show. The complete musical score has also been published...
...occasional lapse from good taste (if any there be benighted enough to notice such things), the conventional allusions to Mr. Cram, Terry and University Hall-these are the essentials of a routine Lampoon. These are here, each with a carefully introduced reference to an ouija board, a crystal, or a ghost. Quite in the orthodox fashion, the quality varies. Real humor hides between paragraphs of undiluted nonsense properly tinctured with spiritualistic jargon. Pre-eminence in the Lampoon's true field-good humored mockery of the incidents and figures in our academic daily round-is revealed in drawings and verse which...