Word: mascotism
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...years ago a voracious Freshman was to wait only eight more days before he began the famous goldfish-eating craze, and things around the College certainly were not dull what with the swimming team trying to acquire a red Arctic goose for a mascot, with another wayward Yardling going out for a midnight snack in his brightest pajamas, and with the Crimson requiring its candidates to kiss all Radcliffe girls coming out of Fogg Art Museum...
...special press conference to read two letters received by Folia, the President's night-colored Scotty. Wrote Noodle Van Loon of Greenwich, Conn, (enclosing a gift): "I do hope you like these cookies as much as I do." Wrote Rip Patterson of Pittsburgh (who signed himself "the Presidential mascot's cocker spaniel friend") : "A magazine* refers to you as a 'silent and undemanding companion.' Don't ever change. Your master must have few enough who fall into that category." Except for two-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt III, generally known as Joe, only youngster...
Better Lookers. As Marie, an orphan who is adopted as a mascot by the regiment, Soprano Pons beats the drum, falls in love with a peasant who turns soldier so that he may marry her. A marquise claims Marie as her niece, carries her off to a chateau to make a lady of her-but not for long. The peasant, now an officer, turns up to claim Marie, with drum rolls and general rejoicing...
Major General Thomas Holcomb, U. S. Marine Corps commandant, issued an order promoting Private James Jolly Plum ("Duffy") Duff, bulldog mascot of the U. S. M. C., to the rank of corporal...
Recalled last week were Colonel Apted's biggest exploits: the time he recovered Massachusetts' Sacred Cod, stolen from the State House; the time he produced Handsome Dan, bulldog mascot stolen from Yale; the time he picked up a bomb and foiled an attempt to blow up Harvard's old Yard pump...