Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dartmouth has been doing it for many, many years, so there must be something to it. Ever since 1895 to be exact, the fraternity houses have been completely deserted one cold March night, and everyone whose heart beats in the rhythm of "Wahoo" is a part of the congregation in Webster Hall, which, with a sort of religious exaltation, is celebrating the rites of Dartmouth Night...
...brief, the Idea maintains that Dartmouth must turn "suburban." Meaning by this, probably, that Dartmouth men must become urban and suave. Away from the pastoral life, the bucolic point of view, the simple and earthy existence 'midst the pine trees and the birds. No more of the violent college spirit, the "small college" attitude. For Dartmouth men come from the mad whirl of city life and know what the bright lights look like. "Let's have a new Dartmouth tradition, a cosmopolitan, tweed dressed, and smartly polished one." Harvard, once a "small college," has turned suburban without that sense...
...still in our first stages of high school, the students are a great mystery. It's rumored about that the students are "awfully rich, and Hegbert's father, yes, they always have wonderful names, is the mayor of Slingtown or president of a bank," and that they must be "powerfully" brilliant to get into Harvard...
...ends up playing "Two O'Clock Jump" (Brunswick). The brass section plays too softly. Just a bit louder, and one could do away with the chapel bell . . . Asked Joe Jones, Count Basie's drummer, the other day how he could stand playing the pop tunes that all bands must. Reply was "Ah just leans back and Ah thinks of low lights and the right girl." Excellent criteria for the judgment of swing. The rhythm section of the band turned out a record this week called "How Long How Long Blues" and "Boogie-Woogie" that swings quietly . . . Jimmy Dorsey celebrated...
Rather rank appeared to us this morning's notice that History I students must turn in their reading notes. We, a group of former honor students who never felt the necessity of compiling reading notes, would have been rather embarrassed. We wish to shield our beleaguered brethren...