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Freshman sophomores feuds are as old as the college itself. In what is some times termed the Golden Age, the classes fought over a keg of rum. Then a huge 10 foot push ball was purchased, but too many men got crushed in the melee. After that, the football rush was instituted. The two classes lined up at opposite ends of a field. Five footballs were placed in the middle. At a signal, each class tried to get footballs over the other goal line. It the freshmen managed to beat their bloody way through the sophomores three times, they were...
...Iranian fuse was sputtering nearer & nearer to the powder keg...
Betting at the fights, say the authorities, runs to seven figures a year and purses of $5,000 are common. At a raid in El Centre last year, S.P.C.A. men found one bookie stuffing the stake on a single) bout into a 50-lb. nail keg and ramming the overflow down into the keg with his foot...
This peaceful ending did not affect the long dispute involving the operating unions (enginemen, firemen, "sick" switchmen, etc.), which for the past year has periodically blown up in strikes, threats, bitter recriminations, and is still as explosive as a powder keg...
...answered only by experiment. Golfer Sam Snead obligingly proved that it is possible to drive a golf ball through a Providence-Pawtucket telephone book. An entomologist held a stop watch on a parasol ant, reported its rate of travel as 720 ft. an hour. Chapman, asked whether a wooden keg full of beer would float in sea water, dropped one into New York Harbor, found that it did -just barely...