Word: pep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night before the game. Van Cunningham, the manager, thought it would be a good idea, but the team was against it. "We're just sacrificial cows," said Paul Barringer, and he spoke for a lot of us; the students who treat football players as a joke would treat the pep rally as a joke, and this week no one was in a joking mood...
...private physician yesterday warned that the chief danger in using pep pills is not that a student's health may suffer, but that his grades will...
...chronic user, however, is not the one who suffers during exam period, the physician noted. He said that pep pills act differently on each individual, and that the pill which keeps one student alert may make another go blank completely during an exam. He added that this makes the drugs especially dangerous to the student who has never taken them and decides to give them a "one-shot trial...
...physician added that he doubts the value of pep pills, and by no means encourages their use. He said that on occasion he has given students placebos ("sugar pills") which proved more effective than benzedrine...
Although University Health Services officials made no specific remarks about pep pills, a member of the staff commented that the Health Services neither dispenses pep pills nor encourages their...