Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nantasket. A boat, bearing about 400-students, faculty and alumni, left Rowe's Wharf at 10 o'clock. After luncheon the men took part in various athletic contests. A baseball game between the students and faculty was held in which the latter were defeated 24-16. The 75-yard dash was won by Arthur Stock 1 G. B. with A. B. Johnson 1 G. B. and William Shepherd 2 G. B. finishing second and third. The First and Second Year men competed in a tug-of-war after which the faculty contested the First Year...
Track events, October 24: 100-yard dash, 440-yard run, 880-yard run, 65-yard high hurdles, 120-yard low hurdles...
...most genuinely amusing comedy that Henry Arthur Jones ever wrote, and he has had few superiors in that vein. The plot is trifling, the situation almost threadbare; yet there is something about characterization and dialogue that makes it intensely funny,--a trace of satire and a dash even of dignified burlesque, but always perfectly plausible people in everyday situations. The money-box penalty for swearing has become a stock device in comedy, and the quarrel between husband and wife over expenses is age-old; but they are handled ingeniously enough here, plus a trivial affaire de coeur between two guests...
...boys are on edge; little things irritate them, but everybody understands that they are merely in the pink of condition" and so on for half a column. "Inside" articles have shown conclusively that the "psychological factor" is fighting for the University, or that Yale's new-born spirit and dash are unconquerable. But when all the special articles are waded through, only one fact stands out; that each of the three races will be a struggle to the last boat-length...
...equivocal character; one of those nondescript animals of the ocean that are neither fish, flesh, nor fowl . . . . somewhat of a trader, something more of a smuggler, with a considerable dash of the pickaroon . . . this cutpurse of the ocean...