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This consists of a rally, a football game, and a night of club-supplied merriment, interspersed liquidly at pre-arranged times. The club affair usually includes a dance, but many members amuse their dates with billiards, bridge, or an educational hour at the television screen...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: $50 Will Bring a Girl, But What's The Use? | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...attack, something for which the Club is famous. Singing out-doors is a real test of such polish: Tuesday's audience heard every word. The concert ended with four choruses from "Patience," and afterwards members of the University joined the Glee Club on the steps to sing football songs. Merriment prevailed, and the spring counterpart of the football rallies had once more got off to rollicking start...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: Yard Concert | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

When the newspapers picked up his innocent merriment last week and made it sound too straight-faced to suit him, President Armitage beat a hasty retreat. "I'm not peddling the institution," he insisted. "We're just a nice little school getting along nicely." Nobody had come through with a million, he added, but one friend of South Jersey (who remained anonymous) had pledged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Innocent Merriment | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...case the Republication charge that the President was motivated by political considerations should provide limitless merriment to those who like to sit on the sidelines and watch the pot calling the kettle black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: State of the Union | 1/9/1948 | See Source »

Seven students chose to forego Christmas merriment this year and instead strung 5,000 feet of cable under the Weeks foot-bridge to bring WHRV broadcasts to the Business School for the first time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trans-River Wire Adds Busy School To WHRV Range | 1/8/1948 | See Source »

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