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...collegians, who now take them as part of the game, along with girls, flasks, and hard stone seats. In the CRIMSON of December 20, 1886, there appears an excerpt from the "Yale Daily News", commenting on cheers and cheering in the old days, and deploring some of the more immodest vociferations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson and Blue Oarsmen Inspired First Organized Cheers in College Sport--Early Cornell "Cry" Called Irreverent | 1/25/1927 | See Source »

Negative Elements: Lame, immodest, sensitive, faulty in grammar, slangy, critical, argumentative, sarcastic, pessimistic, irreligious, irreverent, poor moral influence, no public spirit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Chicago's President | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...Immodest . . . argumentative . . . lame schoolteacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Aug. 31, 1925 | 8/31/1925 | See Source »

...immodest for a young girl to appear in public in a one-piece bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christian Endeavor | 7/20/1925 | See Source »

...recorded the epithets which successive ages of good Americans had flung at progressive women: "In delicate" when they first wanted to study geography; "immodest" when they asked for physiology; "free lov ers," "frumps and freaks," "screaming sisterhood"; "pro-Germans" during the War; "Bolsheviki" after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chapter's End | 5/4/1925 | See Source »

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