Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visitors at the sea lion pool in London's Zoo may now drop a sixpence in a slot to obtain the following result: a newly-devised tower, equipped with traveling chain and trigger, sounds a klaxon, hurls out a fat herring to make the sea lions snort and scramble...
...sports which have been abandoned this week are: basketball, hockey, track, and baseball. More than $15,000 is expected to be saved by the abolition of these ten sports. Due to the drop in football receipts this fall, the budget of the athletic council has been running considerably behind, necessitating this drastic retrenchment...
...true of the assistant managers of minor sports. For a time last year it appeared that some change would be made because of the protests from basketball men, but nothing came of it. The result is that at present former freshmen lettermen who are unable to make the varsity drop the sport rather than play on the junior varsity to no purpose save to be scrubs...
...feature of the report in the drop in the expenses of the departments of athletics and physical education. This year these showed an expenditure of only $4,469,910.33, an increase of $225,899.23 over the outlay for the same departments the previous year...
This is no time for epitaphs, but even so the Vagabond believes that Harvard's loss is thereby the greater. There is a limbo into which men drop when they retire, though they are possessed of everything which made them capable in the days of their greatness and activity. The battles yet to be fought are many, and it would be more heartening to have the commandor in charge. Yet the battles which have been won are the most important. St. monumentum requires, circumspice...