Word: hints
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...land-marks of the College course, along with the Junior Dance and the Senior Spread. The new function has been given the distinctive name of "Jubilee," and is unusual in idea as well. While it will centre around an interdormitory singing contest, it will contain more than a bare hint of social attraction. The competition, of course, will be "the thing." But in addition there will be a reception, a concert, a buffet supper, and a dance,--surely enough to attract even those who hitherto have taken no pleasure in listening to men's choruses. The occasion will be both...
...Emperors in mediaeval Byzantium. The performances of our cheer-leaders at the Yale game he finds interesting as making more creditable the records of these ancient instance. A propos of his questions as to the age and origin of the Harvard cheer, the Advocate might well take a hint and investigate the matter. It seems likely that information is easily available as to the date when organized cheering first appeared here, and as to the source whence the custom was derived...
...punt-one penalty now being that the punter's angle be moved five yards away from the nearest goal post along the goal line. If the punter-out makes a deliberate attempt by a feint to draw the opponents off-side, the referee is not to permit hint to kick the ball until the opponents have had time to return behind their restraining line. In the rules regarding the conduct of players after a forward pass or after the pass has been made now makes it clear that players may interfere with one another until the pass is actually made...
Harvard goes to New Haven this year filled with a spirit of confidence but not of over-confidence. The confidence that Harvard men feel is not that which turns to panic at the first hint of reverse, but the real confidence that maintains itself at the same even strength through good and ill--confidence in the quality of our team and in its determination to exert itself to the utmost in its last great contest of the season...
...years of theatrical experience. "Der Neffe als Onkel" and "Einer muss Heiraten," of previous years were only slender trifles and a little too suggestive of "required reading" in elementary German. "Der Herr Senator" and "Der Raub der Saberinnen" mounted higher in the theatrical scale and were freer from the hint of the class-room. Both, however, in difficulty of performance and in interest to a general audience, fell far below "Alt Heidelberg," the play that the society acted in Jordan Hall in Boston last night and will repeat in Brattle Hall on Thursday...