Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Theodore Roosevelt was discussing the marriage of his daughter to Nicholas Longworth, he confided boastfully to a perplexed Kaiser Wilhelm that he and Nick had both belonged to the Porc. At that time, Roosevelt was not alone in considering membership an important qualification for a son-in-law. Boston mothers, on the prowl for young gentlemen eligible for debutante dances, turned to the clubs to provide them. And The Institute of 1770 even had ranking within itself: the first seventy or eighty elected to it from each class were termed Dickeys, from the name of a secret society D.K.E...
...organizers snatched off the drapery; quick as a wink, students from a nearby seminary for student priests rushed out and re-covered the offending desnudos. The organizers went back into action; for several minutes it was a knockdown affair between strippers and drapers. In time's nick, before the Minister of Education showed up, the strippers won, and the dignitaries started off to inspect the sculpture. No sooner had they passed than the students returned, so that on the walk back, all that the visitors could see were ghostly, sheeted shapes...
...Harvard grad, he must have been Class of '14 or so, sat down and cried with joy. The declared read Visitors 13, Yale 0. Already, more youthful Harvards were swarming through the Bowl's exits singing and cheering jubilantly. A few yards to the side, John Culver and Nick Culolias, 200 pound giants, were playfully slamming each other on the back...
HARVARD YALE Bill Weber (83) LE (81) Bill Stout Bernic O'Brien (75) LT (76) Bill Prentiss Bill Meigs (61) LG (62) Dick Polich Jeff Coolidge (53) C (56) Jim Doughan Tim Anderson (60) RG (63) Thorne Shugart Nick Culolias (70) RT (72) Harris Ashton Joe Ross (85) RE (83) Harry Benninghoff Jerry Marsh (22) QB (12) Jim Lopez Dick Clasby (40) LHB (43) Pete Shears Bob Cowles (11) RHB (10) Jim Armstrong John Culver (34) FB (31) Courad Corelli
Both Briggs and Princeton goalie Nick Angell came out of the game looking like dripping chimney-sweeps. Briggs played a terrific game, frequently diving head-long into the mire to take goals off the toes of the Princeton forwards. On one save, he knocked one of the uprights askew with his shoulder...