Word: elys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Momus, Proteus, Twelfth Night, Mystics, Druids-gave balls and there was much whispering as to whether little Miss Such-&-Such got any invitations. Then there was the Queen, chosen more for her social graces than for Atlantic City qualifications. This year she was Miss Betty Watson, daughter of Banker Eli T. Watson, last year's Rex. The new Rex was Leon Irwin, insurance man, to whom Mayor Walker drank his only champagne toast of the trip...
...Lakin '30, met defeat at the hands of Captain "Ding" Palmer's Blue team of last year, breaking the succession of three years' triumphs. Both the Dartmouth and Princeton freshmen have met defeat at the hands of the Yale team. McLennan, right wing, and Nelson, center, the Eli leader, have been the outstanding players of the Blue aggregation...
...University fencing team will encounter what is expected to prove the keenest opposition to be met this year, when it duels the strong Yale outfit at 8 o'clock this evening in Hemenway Gymnasium. Before the University tilt the Freshmen will engage the Eli first year men in a contest that is scheduled to start at 7 o'clock...
...Yale foilsmen form one of the strongest aggregations in the East, and in Captain Avery posess a fencer who has been intercollegiate champion for the last two years. The Eli swordsmen will enter the contest as slight favorites...
...hand than the other half would of studying under any circumstances. The have the happy faculty of taking nothing seriously, least of all football: a virus of which Yale might do well to absorb a little. For intrinsic vigor and communal health we must cede ourselves the plam: Eli is in his prime, and John, some years older, has passed has. But his decline has something of the splendor of Imperial Rome. Yale Alumni Weekly...