Word: picnicers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senior Class picnic, formerly a regular event in the program of each graduating class, but discarded since 1922, will be revived this year by the class of 1925 which will assemble on Soldiers Field this Saturday afternoon...
Judging by newspaper accounts of it, the annual freshman riot at Yale was a great success. As institutions, a class spread, or a picnic, or a jubilee may be well enough in their way, but Yale freshmen are sure that for downright fun a good, democratic riot, with bonfires to dance around, and bottles to throw, and instructors to throw at--why there's no comparison...
...Senior "Beer Night", which for the past two years has replaced the customary picnic, will this year be supplanted by a gathering of the class at Soldiers Field on the afternoon of Saturday, June 13. For this meeting, which will last from 1.30 to 6 o'clock, the class, led by a brass band, will march to the field, where, all the gates having been locked behind them, a varied program of athletic entertainment will be enacted...
...with ignominy by being tight, uncommonly tight, which is a shocking reversal of the proper order, 1928, however, will have no conscientious scruple for parsimony. Forty-two percent of the seniors never drink, and it is rumored that this year the funds, instead of being used for a senior picnic, will purchase two heroic statues for the steps of Widener Rodin's 'Le Penseur,' representing Concentration and one of G. K. Chesterton, symbolic of Distribution. Surely the freshmen must contribute generously to such a cause...
...four kerosene lamps and one piano. The room directly adjoining it is the room where the President was born, at a time when his father kept the store. C. Bascom Slemp hurried around gathering human interest material. One of his finds was a picture taken of a Sunday school picnic which includes Calvin Coolidge at the age of ten, his sister, now dead, his father, several elders, other children and an organ...