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...Great God Pigskin Sickens." So says the Daily Northwestern. "Long, irksome drills, coupled with necessity for victory, have tended to dampen the ardor even of those who love the game most," writes the Rutgers Targum. In the Yale News appears the following ultimatum: members of the "Big Three must either fall in line with the thoroughly up-to-date type (of football) as played by such teams as Notre Dame; or they must frankly recognize that football skill, glory, strength, and prestige is no longer centralized in Yale, Harvard, and Princeton, and set about to engage in less elaborate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H--Y-P | 12/18/1930 | See Source »

...afternoon services during the daylight hours; and even near those that do the cries of tennis players can be of little disturbance in an age where the screeches of automobile horns and the grinding of trolley cars are legal anywhere and anytime. Afternoon athletics can hardly be held to dampen the enthusiasm of church-go-ers just because the playground happens to be near a place of worship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SAINT BOTOLPH BLUES | 5/25/1929 | See Source »

...lines. Everything curves. The world has an end but no boundary. It is like an orange with the rind pared down to nothing and the pips taken out. Within and around that imaginary sphere which remains of the orange, intangible forces wave in every direction. Some waves bump and dampen each other's motion until they have no movement left. But their energy is not lost. It goes into other waves which may bump and merge and thereby strengthen each other. Electrons and protons form and attract each other. They create atoms of matter, the atoms molecules, the molecules earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein's Field Theory | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...note would seem to be the return for the money--the dance itself. If the dance is good enough, the expense will have little effect on the numbers. Now the requirements for a good dance are a good hall and a good orchestra. Memorial Hall would dampen anyone's enthusiasm. Why not have the Prom at some attractive ballroom? If the Gaydon Club can afford it, certainly the much larger Junior Class can afford it. It seems to me that an announcement by the 1930 Prom Committee of a good orchestra in a good ballroom would do much to revive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

Rain was the uninvited guest at the second Jubilee. It did not dampen the enthusiasm of the guests or the vocalists. About 600 guests were on hand, and most of them were soaked. The quadrangle was kaleidoscopic with brilliant lanterns and gay banners, and all students who had rooms on the quadrangle were ordered to light their lights at dark. The hits of the evening were a rendition of "Daddy Longlegs," a Hawaiian trio composed of J. A. Patterson '19, B. A. Jenkins '19, and H. H. Pell '19, and the "Anvil Chorus" of the Freshman Glee Club. Smith Halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVOLUTION OF JUBILEE SHOWS CULTURAL DECLINE FROM TEA PARTY TO RIOT OF JAZZ | 3/28/1928 | See Source »

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