Word: rods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Danger of Churchgoing. Then religion is a staff and a rod: "As I came away from the Evening Service, walking home from that Sabbath adventure, some neighbours of mine met and passed me in their motor, laughing. Were they laughing at me? I wondered uneasily; and as I sauntered across the fields I vaguely cursed those misbelievers. Yes, yes, their eyes should be darkened, and their mocking lips put to silence. They should be smitten with the botch of Egypt, and a sore botch in the legs that cannot be healed...
Undergraduates were less caustic. The Maroon student weekly, editorially conceeded that "the school along the Charles River still wields a schoolmarm's rod over the thoughts and actions of most American schoolmen" and crowed that "liberal education has unearthed an invaluable bedfellow...
...other day I ran into Johnny Field, who played bass with Bill Davison's all star crew at the Ken in 1943. Personnel included the late Rod Cless, clarinet, James P. Johnson, plan, Kaiser Marshall, drums, Sandy Williams, trombone, and Bill himself on cornet...
...starting position are definite yet, and Coach Harlow is still looking for new material, but a tentative, lineup would certainly include Rod Perkins and Lou DiLuzio at the ends, Chet Pierce and Bill "Willow" Fisher at the tackles, Howle Foster and Mal Allen or Frank LeBart at the guards, and Pete Grady, Bob Faber, or Paul O'Leary at center...
Some 13 men from Henry Lamar's 1944 informal squad will be back as the nucleus of this year's team, reinforced by three or four returning veterans from the 1942 formal team. Among the regulars on the forward wall will be Dave Mackintosh and Rod Perkins at the end positions, Chet Pierce at tackle, Howie Foster, Ellis Hodge, Teddy Woggon, and Mel Allen at guard, and Paul O'Leary at center...