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...prominent University Hall Official was interviewed concerning the scandal. Induced from a pigeon-hole by a tempting piece of Roquefort, the official asserted, cautiously peering from side to side, "I will recommend militant disciplinary action. I'm off to Pinehurst. Wheel Say, didn't you think the latest Lampoon was a smackeroo? Omigosh, here comes a secretary. Enough is enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Will Ugly Lampoon Building Obstruct Mount Auburn Street | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

...disclosure was made public late last night when an unidentified stool-pigeon reported to the Harvard headquarters that the Elis had "nefariously inveigled their honorable contestants" by substituting the more effective large balls for the more skill-testing small ones, which the Crimson police used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Cops Gypped in Bowling Match With Crimson Flatfeet | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Although unable to present concrete evidence since supposedly the alleys are in "cahoots" with the Yale police in return for "Protection," the stool-pigeon reported that many of the members of the Blue team do not possess badges, but are alley-rats or "ringers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Cops Gypped in Bowling Match With Crimson Flatfeet | 3/12/1938 | See Source »

Three Yardlings signed up for magic, two for pigeon raising, three for palmistry, one for polemies, one for genealogy, one for the study of humor, and three for numismatics, the science of coin collecting. Ceramics or the study of pottery, with two enthusiasts, is one of the latest subjects to appear on the sheets in the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Music, Skiing, and Ping Pong Prove Yardling Favorites in Hobby Survey | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

...anonymous, memorable caricature of the first Baron Rothschild strutting like a Semitic pigeon, done in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stone Stuff | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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