Word: frats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Starters Overcome by Food Poison on Eve of Game" blared Dartmouth-style headlines in an edition actually prepared by Crimeds in Cambridge. The original New Hampshire grown copy of the Dartmouth reached the streets later in the morning--too late to quell most of the panicky Dartmouths. Scores of frat boys rushed to the coach to volunteer their services to the team...
Another quaint outlet for the Stanford spirit is the pajamarino. The freshmen men annually put on pajamas for the rally before the game with Southern California. The festivities begin with the freshmen parading down fraternity row. The frat men line up on both sides of the street with stale fruit and water hoses. Freshmen survivors of this-proceed to the basketball court where they become the feature attraction of the rally. Then they march over to Roble Hall to serenade the freshmen women. This serenade usually turns into an attempt to storm the sacred Roble Halls. Up fire escapes...
...next day sees a hockey game against Princeton and a basketball game with Harvard. A girl's skiing contest at 10:30 a.m. will help you laugh off the morning-after. Frat parties resume at 9 p.m., if they ever stopped, and the Carnival Ball begins...
...mating customs of ancient Egyptians. Here the reader can find such characteristic creatures of the jazz age as the hot & cold flapper ("There were two kinds of men, those you played with and those you might marry") described in the elegant, slightly elegiac prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald; the frat boys going through their rituals as if life itself depended on them ("every night a freshman stood on the roof of the Nu Delta house and announced the time every 15 seconds"); the blonde whom gentlemen preferred and who was thrilled to see in Paris "the historical spot where...
...bunch giggled about the frat parties, which started with beer on Friday and evolved to milk punch on Sunday afternoon. Then there is the gay rivalry-and blue and red paint-and the bands-and the street cars, open air ones, Cathy fell off one two years ago, and her date didn't realize it till three blooks later. By that time some Yailed had kidnapped her. She never did see that Harvard man again...