Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...later executive order, the President also established as a national monument two tracts of land 30 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Ariz. They contain ruins of buildings constructed by the Snake family of the Hopi Indians during prehistoric times. They are to be known as Wupatki (Great Rain Cloud House) National Monument...
Harvard enthusiasm which has been rising to a fever heat this week, culminated yesterday afternoon in a wild march to the Stadium, in frenzied shouting and yelling once there, and in a furious snake dance all the way back to Harvard Square. Captain Greenough's team will meet the Bulldog an inspired combination, if they catch the contagion of enthusiasm which is raging through the college...
...President of Harvard but the President of Dartmouth who lately declared that chief among the problems of university administration is the "emotional alumnus." The phrase flashed memories of ragtime hands and acrobatic cheer leaders, of snake dancers, of comic opera commencement costumes, of hand-organs and monkeys and goats. But more than such things, it now appears, proceed from the emotional graduate. In his intellectuals also there is ragtime and motley...
They manage these things better at Dartmouth. There they have not only diagnosed the psychic cause of snake dances, commencement masquerading and goats, but have set about removing it even in the midst of bright college years. A psychiatrist attached to the Faculty makes it his business to look into the mental and emotional problems of undergraduates and to treat them with a view to their adjustment. Contrary to expectation, the undergraduates have responded in numbers. This may be set down to the ego's delight in the study of the ego, which is accountable for so much...
COBRA?The snake makes drama still, even as when Eve first found it in the grass. Mostly melodrama...