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There are other various and sundry things the Plebe must do but there is little of the old system of hazing left. We mean physical hazing. "Mental hazing" by means of trick questions is done, but even this is not considered hazing for it is done in the spirit of fun. No upperclassman will ever touch a Plebe. It just isn't done, as it was twenty or thirty years...
...lines they shoot down theah would win any ole wah ovah night...Oooooah, did he drop the ball?...and he looks so sweet in his helmet too...Ah'm so sorry, won't out side win now? But you know they simply eat lines up themselves, an Ah mean they do. You just look overcome with admiration at how wonderful they look in uniforms, and drawl out a'Wounldn't they just' fall foah you all hard down home'...Theah's something so different about Ahmy men...Theah is...Ah sho' think they're wonderful..Ah just love their brass...
From years of relative isolation from other student bodies, a system of slang is unique to the Corps. For example, the word "soiree" is used as a noun to mean an unpleasant task, and as a verb to mean "to inconvenience." It started back in the dim ages when officers' wives used to give evening parties where the poor military guests suffered in garotte collars weighed down with gold trolley cable. It soon came to be said that anything unpleasant was as bad as a "soiree." From this one can see readily the evolution of the word to its present...
...enough officials in town over the weekend to do anything about it, that an announcement would be made soon. With the 1929 output of cigarets estimated at the new high figure of 120,000,000,000,* the rise in price, if maintained for the rest of the year, will mean in- creased profits...
...gratify them under the circumstances becomes a recognized obligation. This does not mean, of course, that Yale is not a stickler for all the amateur rules governing intercollegiate sport. She is, Technically no taint of professionalism touches her skirts. But that is hardly the point that Mr. Taft has in mind. He sees the source of the pressure to elevate muscle over mind and the enormous investment in equipment and coaches that is dedicated to this...