Word: hoodooed
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...years. Passing over in bewilderment such queries as "Who drinks the porter in Macbeth?" "Who wrote the famous poker scene in which Pippa passes?" and "When did A. H. Woods produce "Getting Goethe's Garter'?" the student will pause at number thirteen. For once the ancient hoodoo reems to be broken; here is a question for which he can hope to find an answer. It reads: "How was 'Paradise Lost'? Who lost it? Who found it?" Professor Lowes, in his lecture on Milton this afternoon, may not reply to that particular question; but he will give information that will...
...four years since the University baseball team defeated Princeton, and we have had reason to believe that the feat was well-nigh impossible. But this year our hopes have been raised by the team's enviable record in the earlier part of the season, and we trust that the "hoodoo" will be broken today. The University team has been meeting and defeating teams which have had much more competition than it this spring, and has proven that Harvard has one of the best college nines in the country. A comparison of the scores of the two teams so far this...
...done to revive the writing of songs of light vein in which, up to within a year or two, Harvard men have been so successful. Without neglecting the demand for "the good old songs" which is so frequently expressed, can we not have some more of the "Hoodoo," "Mrs. Craigin's Daughter," "Wing Tee Wee," or "Debutante" variety...
...nearly twenty of them originated among the students here in Cambridge. Among those which have never been published in any college collection may be mentioned: "Wake Not, but hear Me, Love," by L. S. Thompson '92; "Faint Heart Ne'er won Fair Lady," by R. T. Whitehouse '91; "The Hoodoo," by L. S. Thompson '92 and L. F. Berry '92, arranged as sung by the latter last fall; "The Moonlighter," by E. H. Abbott '93; "Mrs. Craigin's Daughter," "The Party at Odd Fellows Hall," and "Wine and Woman" (from the "Obispah") by R. W. Atkinson '91; "Romeo and Juliet...
...above the usual standard. The program was the same as the one given on the Western trip, but to this several songs were added, as "How Can I Leave Thee," "O' Grady's Goat," and "The Party at Odd Fellows' Hall." The solos were especially well received, particularly "The Hoodoo," by L. F. Berry...