Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...work of gathering subscriptions has gone forward with great rapidity. The having already been taken. This is a larger number than that reached at a corresponding time last spring and should insure the sale of the larger part of the editions since only 800 copies are being printed, over 100 less then of the 1929 Red Book. Those who still wish to obtain subscriptions may secure them from Red Book representatives in either Gore, Smith, or Standish Hall Common Rooms between 12.30 and 1.30 o'clock daily. A limited number of copies will also be on a sale...
...Examinations. Undoubtedly the various Departments have felt the ravages incurred by the comparative excellencies of the two sets of ingulsitions, for previously the questions asked in the winter papers have been accepted as more or less of an indication of those which would not be asked in the following spring or at least which would be passed over lightly. Henceforth the June Generals will be the be-all and end-all--as is their proper function...
...spring performed by lying on the back and then jumping to the feet, the weight of the body coming at first upon the head and shoulders...
...rough and tough Princeton team set foot on the hallowed soil of Cambridge. Nine men in old clothes filed out--of the CRIMSON building with clubs over their shoulders to meet the strangers from New Jersey. It was the first conflict between the warriors of the two colleges this spring. They crossed bats on Soldiers Field. A furious mound battle waxed hot for hours under the vigilant eye of Boston police. Neither side could get the advantage. Darkness came with the score tied. They carried the fight indoors. Banquetting followed. At 3 next morning empty cases were seen piled high...
MICHAEL Arlen again, with his old characters in new names, dropped into a new book with the appropriate spring title "Young Men in Love"--that is all. It takes about a hundred pages of very, very polite conversation to get the plot tugged out of port and under way. Maxims are to be found at the beginning and end of each line, and one feels that Arlen is trying his hardest to impress us with his cleverness. I advise him to read some more Oscar Wilde and go back to Armenia...