Word: gloom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with regard to the Freshman teams, it may be said that they are often a great comfort in times of trouble and no worry at all in times of good fortune. If one can say--"Ah, but our freshmen"-- with a rising inflection, the gloom of varsity defeats can be somewhat dispelled. And if the University emerges triumphant, the misfortune of the Freshmen can be easily dismissed with a shrug--"Ah, the freshmen--." As anyone can see, this is a great advantage...
Devotees of hockey at the University were put into a gloom when Coach Claflin resigned his post. But this proved to be merely the darkness before dawn. Mr. Alfred Winsor, has, since 1917, kept himself as much as possible out of the public eye: but hockey at the University has fortunately continued to feel his influence and has never allowed him out of its sight. Now when it has fallen upon stony ground, Mr. Winsor has returned to the rescue...
According to plans now being formed the University basketball team will this season emerge from the comparative gloom of its three past years as a Crimson sport, and become a center of major interest during the winter months...
...peace since he went out of office, and is little more than an amplification of the newspaper articles which he has been contributing to the Hearst press. He is convinced that peace "has gone back perceptibly and unmistakably." "The present year." says he, " has been one of growing gloom and menace; the international temper is distinctly worse all around...
With the "largest squad in the history of the University" the days of football are ushered in. Gloom emanates daily from New Haven on account of the ineligible Sophomores and from Princeton for some other well-known reason. But pre-season gloom from the camps of the enemy is a customary phenomenon to the football world. Coach Roper has a bad habit of fooling most of the people until about November first by predicting chaos for his team, and at Yale championship Freshman teams always dwindle to nothingness in the autumn of their sophomore year. Beyond reporting the extraordinary number...