Word: incidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Patriarch. William Courtleigh is disclosed as an aged mountaineer who acts as lawgiver for his entire region. When one of his sons slays another in a fit of sexual rage, the hoary solon is faithful to the credo of the crags and becomes the boy's executioner. While...
Next June the last group of such undergraduates join the ranks and already the ruffied relations are smoothing. Mr. Bingham has all along showed his interest in stilling the seething waters and something tangible in the nature of renewed relations is promised for the near future. His patient efforts should...
The Caravan usually has something very good in it: this time it is a long poem by Phelps Putnam, The Daughters of the Sun, too long to quote, too good to quote from. Of the newcomers, William Rollins Jr.'s short novel, The Obelisk, is a painfully accurate account...
The several very dubious telegrams being received at Yale point obviously to the fact that the disappearance of the fence is due to the equally traditional spirit of the college prank. Undergraduates are notoriously poor judges of the effects of what they are pleased to consider practical jokes and it...
One of the greatest traditions of this rivalry is the annual struggle for the "little brown jug." When old Michigan teams traveled to play Minnesota, they carried their water in a number of brown jugs, painted with the Michigan colors. One year, however, it was found that one of the...