Word: mads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excuse for attempting a new speed record from Cambridge to Princeton. Because a man is fully acquainted with the roads he is to follow, he is not justified in assuming that he has cut about six hours off his traveling time. Last week four students were killed in a mad rush to witness the Chicago-Princeton game,--a tragedy that recalls the fatal accident to some Harvard men en route to New Haven last year. In a humanitarian desire to reduce the number of foolhardy automobilists without having recourse to the undertaker, the CRIMSON wishes to supplement the publication...
...last week means simply this: every Harvard man back of the team, every man, with a ticket to New Haven in his pocket, ready to contribute all he can to overcome the handicap of facing a fighting mad Yale team on its home field. The game is not won yet; it won't be won at all if Harvard supporters minimize the task that is ahead of the Crimson team...
...against the black jersey men yesterday afternoon, Churchill started at left halfback as a result of his brilliant open field running in the Valparaiso game Saturday. G. Owen, Jr., '23 was the other halfback; Captain Horween played full; F. Johnson took the team at quarter. The scrubs were fighting mad and contested every inch of ground bitterly, often piling up team A in its tracks. However, before the session was over, the University team had registered 5 touchdowns and 1 field goal...
...older and dingier; until in the Senior Dormitories in the Yard he finds them in company with regulations about carrying water from the common pump; use of kerosene lamps; and other subjects of historical interest. Wherever and whenever he reads them he is amused--by the prohibition of his mad desire to play ball in the Yard, or to beat upon drums; the designation of the days upon which he must remove his small stock (if any) of distilled liquors from his rooms; and the section which concerns itself with his morals...
tionist brigade, made up of people who are said to "think they know much better what is good for other people than such foolish folk can possibly know themselves." These foolish folk are said to be so mad that if successful they will not stop with prohibition, but will decide what Scotchmen are to eat, how Scotchmen are to do their work, occupy their leisure run the home and bring up the children...