Word: peps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...earthquake. They even went so far as to whip Voltaire's poor old-Candide because he had merely seen a Portuguese eat a piece of bacon. Now it is the astronomer's turn to be whipped. And some people even hope that jazz and the hip-hoorah of modern Pep will drown the roar of the sidereal universe. None of these, of course, considers that one shift of the celestial pole in a mere 25,000 years will make grass grow on the present north pole and put jelly fish in even the most modern of our office buildings...
Coach Fisher said in part: "I am frank to admit that I never saw more pep in a Harvard team than in the practice last Monday. It proved that the team looks ahead rather than behind. Enthusiasm has grown during this week. The team has been defeated twice, by two crackerjack teams, but has no reason to be ashamed...
...publishing the Class Song and the Class Hymn, the committee has perpetuated some excellent musical compositions--all things being considered--and some words to those compositions, of which the authors will be heartily ashamed in about three years. The line, "full of the pep, that has made Harvard's rep" in the song is beyond words--and we hold no particular brief for the words of the Hymn--"for God, for Harvard, and for "greatest anticlimax ever written", perpetrated a number of years ago by a devout Eli. We reiterate, however, that the music is good--but then...
...quite out of place. There is difference between the old comic opera style and the musical comedy antics of today. "The Chocolate Soldier" requires the older type of acting, and fortunately most of the company recognized this regardless of the obvious efforts of the producer to instill a little "pep" into the performance...
...Samuels in a repertoire of new songs and original monologue is the outstanding feature of the widely varied bill at Keith's this week. Miss Samuels' rare humor coupled with her irrepressible pep more than holds up her position as headliner. It is this star's first appearence in Boston vaudeville after an absence of several years. She was exceptionally well received and gave several encores...