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...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...
Readers may remember the author's widely read "Man With the Golden Arm." It depicted carefully and correctly the Chicago of bums, rummies, winoes, the world of the Near North Side. Algren has this Chicago heavily on his mind in his latest work: the city of Hinky Dink Kenna, the Capone gang, and the Black Sox. His poetic description of the town and his reactions to it hangs largely about the wrong side of Michigan Boulevard...
...when undergraduates carried bangers (canes), hired sweeps (servants), and felt it bad form to "talk stand" (discuss marks). They were the days that soon inspired the fictional Frank Merriwell, who would give his all against Harvard ("Old Yale can't get along without him!"), and tight-lipped Dink Stover ("I'll play the game . . . We'll see who'll lead!"), who did the same...