Word: poling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...envies her brother or her chum's brother. It is wonderful how many "brothers" they have. Before the Thanksgiving foot ball game between Yale and Princeton they were divided up into factions as they were on national politics. They flaunted up and down the corridors with the barber's pole of Princeton's orange and black or the blue of Yale conspicuously displayed. The majority wore the blue, not so much for male reasons as because it was more becoming and easier to get. Harvard also is a great favorite with the girls, but not so many of them have...
...Pole vault...
...intend to try the pole vault are requested to be at the gymnasium at 3 o'clock today...
...there is no occasion for Harvard's recognizing the great general's birthday. It is certainly a fact that Harvard doesn't recognize it in any outward way, Harvard students pass the day with their usual "Harvard Indifference" from all outside appearances. The flag on the Cambridge liberty pole and a few remarks in the newspapers are all that remind them that the day is a legal holiday. One year we did have some celebrations. In '83 there was a display in the yard of several patent fire escapes. whereby several ankles were sprained, one arm broken, and doubtless...
...POLE VAULT.Won by Frothingham, '86, over Goodhue, '88, with a vault of 6 feet 6 inches...