Word: dink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winky Dink and You (Sat. 11 a.m., CBS-TV) is a children's show that will cost many a parent half a dollar. The program proposes to teach "creative drawing and self-expression" to moppets. It shows simplified sketches of steamboats, locomotives, etc. on the screen while the young artists-or at least those who have sent in for the 50? Winky Dink Magic TV Kit-make copies and add their own embellishments. The Magic Kit contains a transparent plastic window that sticks to the TV screen, a set of special crayons and a flannel erasing cloth. Parents...
Entombed deep in the recesses of Firestone Library, Princeton has its own literary versions of Yale's Dink Stover and Harvard's Iron Duke, Books like A Princetonian and Adventures of a Freshman, forewarned the inexperienced, nineteenth century gentleman of perils and pleasures on the Nassau campus. 'The Victorian veneer of old-time literature has not entirely disappeared. A modern view of the Princeton campus reveals that Gothic and greeness live...
...await the whack on the back that will send 90 of them to the six great Senior societies. William Howard Taft had sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror. They did not even joke about the approaching ordeal. No one was so sure of election but that the possible rejection of some chum cast its gloom over...
...Dink Stovers who went to Yale after World War II seemed unable to take Tap Day too seriously. Many found it humiliating for the hundreds of juniors rejected; some found the etiquette of the societies ludicrous (in theory, a member hearing his society's name mentioned among outsiders was supposed to leave the room). Finally last week, Yale's Senior societies quietly came to a decision. After 75 years. Tap Day was abolished. Just how the societies will elect members from now on, no one yet knew. Said the Yale Daily News: "Tap Day was not a great...
...drink" or beany is the freshman badge of distinction. Any sophomore may order any freshman to wear his "dink" and if he refuses, which is often the case, he is virtually attacked by any number of sophomores...