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Cabot's plans call for speeches by the coaches of both teams (Jerry Kanter for Closed and Dike Hyde for Open), special songs and cheers, and short speeches by Carol "Slug" Dolan and John McNamara, two varsity players who came up from the House system. Dolan, a Kirkland House resident will speak for Open University while MacNamara, living in Eliot House, will speak for Closed...
...Yardling attack, utilizing Princeton maneuvers, went fairly well against the varsity defense. Simultaneously, Jordan was personally directing his reserve offense against a freshman team. End Slug Dolan, whose bad leg has sidelined him so far this year, looked particularly impressive...
...young scholars compiled examples of "folk medicine" ("Warts can be cured by rubbing a black slug on them") and weather lore ("If the wind gets in Gravely Gap, it will rain"), told how the farmers call in their cows ("Coof, coof, nare, nare, nare"). They interviewed all the most prominent people in town-from Lieut. Colonel O.N.D. Sismey, the village squire, to Mr. P. Stocker, the butcher ("His scales are very accurate, as they should be"). Reported one scholar of Mr. J. Dudley, the roadman: "If Mr. Dudley is not sweeping leaves, he is sometimes cleaning drains. When I asked...
...glumly leaving a movie theater after a comedy. Everywhere Yanes found unsmiling citizens giving each other the rough sides of their tongues. "Pardon me," said Yanes to a man he had jostled in the street. "Pardon, is it? A little more of that and I'll slug you?" was the reply. Yanes left the reader to wonder what Venezuelans have to laugh about...
...community of minute animals and plants. In the ocean food cycle, plankton is eaten by such small fish as the herring, small fish by larger ones like the tuna, larger ones by squids, and all of these by whales. To survive, sea creatures assume remarkable disguises: the Sargasso Sea slug has a soft, shapeless body, exactly like the vegetation in which it lives; another fish mimics weeds even to the point of having white dots which look like worm spots...