Word: hookey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freshman football, baseball, hockey; varsity football, captain; varsity baseball; president, Undergraduate Varsity Club; Pi Eta Club; Kirkland House Hookey; International Rotary Foundation Fellowship...
...hatred that its pupils wisely bear their teachers, has in its ranks to the present hour and present day a man so lost to the consumption of whiskey and cheap wine that pupils and fellow teachers alike make jokes about it. One boy who stayed out playing hookey for a few days returned at length and, with a smile on his face, was able to justify his reason for returning in these words: "I got tired of seeing all the winos on the street. I though I'd come back to school to see and educated wino...
...caliber hockey playing takes place outside the high schools in amatour leagues, where subsidies for team equipment and ice practice time are more readily available. In Canada players from eight to 16 players participate on either Mosquito, Pee Wee, Bantam, or Midget teams. From this lower level of the hookey anarchy those players who are good enough to withstand the stiff competition graduate to the Juvenile ranks, in which they may remain until they reach...
Tickets for the Yale hookey game tomorrow night may be purchased by students for $1.25 plus a coupon at 60 Boylston St. before 5 p.m. this afternoon. A second ticket may be bought for $2.50. The game tomorrow is at 8 p.m. in the Boston Arena, where tickets will sell...
...restless frontiersman, always dreaming of wealth and never finding it. The boy loathed school in Hannibal, Mo. As he later let Huck Finn put it: "At first I hated the school, but by and by I got so I could stand it. Whenever I got uncommon tired, I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up." Clemens himself fled school by the time...