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...Down with Dartmouth's Deep Blue Funk!" These words on an obscure handbill printed on sick blue paper, hit the Dartmouth campus at the end of September and aroused curiosity. After "funk" had been discussed, undergraduates began to realize that some supposedly tow-head bunch had an attitude about listlessness at Dartmouth. "Listlessness" is the favorite campus editorial word all over America these days. It is supposed to mean that the campuses have long ago left kid-shouting behind and have found no substitute...
...Larry Funk and his Band of a Thousand Melodies will furnish the music. This band is composed of 12 pieces, featuring a girl singer. Due to over-crowding of the hall in past years, only 200 couple tickets and 100 stag tickets will be sold...
...those two eminently worthy old gentlemen Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls could have returned to earth last week to check up on their Literary Digest, they might have suffered enough of a shock to send them kiting back to their Lutheran heaven. As recently as two weeks ago there would have been no shock at all. For, two weeks ago, they would have found the Digest bearing a tasteful painting of horses & riders taking a water-jump in a steeplechase. (Not quite so happy as one Digest cover of a year ago showing a tot peering...
...Wilfred John Funk, son of the founder, is titular president but is famed only for light verse which has been published, not by his father's firm, but by Robert M. McRride...
Lowell House dining hall has been transformed to an uncharted shipwreck isle and will be the setting for the "Shipwreck Ball" which opens at 9.30 o'clock tonight. The committee has arranged for Larry Funk and his "Band of a Thousand Melodies" from the New York Palais d'Or to play for the dancing, while a girl who has been a member of several Broadway shows will sing with the band and help to make the shipwreck life more cheerful...