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...eighteenth cenutry, tutors had their own chambers, and during the disorderly period of the Revolution, if not before, the undergraduates began to look upon them as their natural enemies. A lad who treated his tutor as a friend was looked down upon as a 'fisherman', and the tutors regarded the undergraduates as inmates in a reformatory...
Dean Hess, a studious lad from Marietta, Ohio, decided that he would rather fight than preach. He was a 23-year-old ordained minister in the Church of the Disciples of Christ when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; the next day, Hess enlisted as an air cadet. After winning his wings, he taught flying for two years, then went off to the ETO as a fighter pilot, piled up 62 missions and won the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...Clocker turned and waved to his wife. "Old horses never die," he whimpered, "they go to Suffolk Downs." The Clocker gave these tips: First Doit Easy; Fifth, Four Chances; Sixth, Algasir; Seventh, Blue Falcon; Eighth, Soma Lad; Ninth, Quatrefoil...
...that, lad, is my advice to you. Turn green...
...flag on that shillelagh. Mix your greenery with some red, white and bluery. For faith, lad, 'tis a double celebration we're for having' today. The snakes left Ireland, General Gage left Boston, and the whole town's celebrating...