Word: muralitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Yale undergraduates, college spirit runs higher at Yale than House spirit in Cambridge, and the colleges have far less difficulty in recruiting 11 men for intra-mural football games...
Littered over the island are many "cultural" objects. There are caves full of bones and weird mural paintings. There are stones carved with phallic symbols and strange pictures (men with wings and birds' feet). Neither the living natives nor modern scholars can read the tantalizing hieroglyphics that remain, but Dr. Wolff makes a desperate attempt. Some of the symbols, he thinks, had their origin in India, 11,000 miles away, more than 5,000 years...
...suggestion, which gained considerable approval at the time the House system was being established, was to abolish Varsity athletics altogether. Instead, an intra-mural schedule would be established with the sole inter-collegiate events occurring when the House played their Yale counter-parts. The contests between Harvard Houses and Yale Colleges which take place today are a survival of this idea...
Still another proposal was to use an intra-mural program as the basis of college athletics, choosing an all-star team from the House teams to be the Varsity and play against Yale...
...sporting line Varsity wrestley John H. Cassedy '50 and intra mural grappling champion James Howard '48 are planning special instruction programs...