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...life's great dramas is scheduled to take place this morning when the Harvard Advocate and Yale's Harkness Hoot abandon the sheepskin for the pigskin in a game of touch football on the Old Campus Field...
...five years, rodeo's has tripled since 1928. A good rodeo performer makes $12,000 a year; the best, more. Possibly the most dangerous sport in the world, it supports 250 performers a year, of whom many graduate to other professions. Onetime performers at Prescott were Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, Harold Bell Wright, Russell Boardman, Earl Sande. Will Rogers reached the Ziegfeld Follies and Hollywood by way of the rodeo. Wandering about Times Square last week, wearing broad-brimmed Stetsons and high heels, were half a dozen rodeo performers whose names are as familiar to rodeo enthusiasts...
...with misgivings that we view its passing. An apposition journal is usually a healthy intellectual influence, no matter how distasteful its attacks may be. And the assaults of early "Hoot" days were not lacking in virulence by any means. The jolts given to undergraduate complacency were many and telling. The frequent overstatement and violence were at least partially justifiable on the grounds that they undoubtedly drew marked attention to certain valid criticisms...
...Hoot" upon occasion did more than this. At times it was definitely constructive, even scientific. The analysis last year of the NRA anticipated by six months the present basis for the only well-founded objections to that legislative hodge-podge. The review of the English department was dispassionate and thoroughly sound. The specific recommendations for an extension of tutorial and seminarial instruction here were based on an intelligently formulated educational theory and were financially practical...
Such rational articles as these gave the "Hoot", despite its frequent sops to sensationalism, a justifiable function. It is a sad commentary on the undergraduate body that such a review should prove financially impossible. --Yale Daily News...