Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dawns upon a lonely Yard. For John has gone a-calling. Where tall and Gothic towers rise collegiate toward the skies John will be found in sportive frolic with a funny old striped beast. Both John and the Tiger are fond of the game. Sometimes one has shown himself more apt, sometimes the other. But quite aside from the zest of battle, the pleasure of the meeting has perpetuated the annual interchange of courtesies through all these years. And so of course the day dawns upon a lonely Yard. For John has gone a-calling...
Critics of intercollegiate football are fond of stressing the commercialism that the enormous popularity of the game has injected into college athletic. But we have never seen it properly blamed for the extravagant sentimentality which is associated with the thing called college spirit. How could one die for dear old Rutgers except in an intercollegiate football game? Baseball, track, ping-pong, checkers--these hardly call for the lethal effort. One doesn't feel like debating or swimming "for God, for Country and for Yale." It is intercollegiate football alone that brings the rah, rah business so close to tears...
...Fond of Theatre as Ever...
...Mind you," Mr. Hopper said, "I'm not complaining about this state of affairs. It like the theatre, and I'm just as fond of it today as I was 50 years ago. The glamor of the bright lights is still there...
...Than Water" (mistaken identity in a fight over women and a will) transpires at Rockaway Beach, L. I.; "Cousins of Convenience" (a comedy of clothes) hints at the annual hegira to Florida; "Never Begin with Lions" (cinema tribulations) is in Los Angeles. Abe and Mawruss appear at length, however, fond anachronisms in a friendly quarrel over "Keeping Expenses Down...