Word: lair
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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After being outfought by Exeter the 1921 team came back. Against an eleven estimated to be their superiors, the Freshmen showed that in the absence of the University team they could represent us in a worthy fashion. They bearded the Tiger in his lair and humbled him in a manner never dreamed of even by their most ardent supporters...
There is a wealth of timely articles and pictures in the Freshman Number of the Illustrated which makes it a fitting introduction to the College year, an attractive welcome to the Class of 1920. Starting with the cover, a line of "lambs" before the Bursar's lair, the number continues to give promise of a successful year for the University's youngest publication...
...extreme aesthete type is in our midst--Mr. Dos Passos would never have to resort to such obvious and wholesome objects of art as the Venus de Milo, a Buddha, and Parrish's "Pirate Ship" if he had ever seen the animal in the wild state in his native lair--in Oxford, for instance...