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...change in Class Day procedure that continued was reported in the MAGENTA in 1873. "A noticeable feature at the Chapel was the substitution of stalwart Junior ushers for the armed policemen who used to guard the entrance to the parish church in Class Day mornings. The most belligerent freshman could find no excuse for a rush and everything is quiet and orderly." But there was a general flagging of spirits that year, for the reporter continued sadly to note that "it is evident that the interest in Class Day is slowly dying out, and that either something must be done...
...next stalwart to stride to the plate was aging, lecherous old Wilful S. Foulfellow, his eyes burning in the apricot sun. He could barely reach the plate. But he managed to lash a whistling bunt to the catcher. When the dust had died down Foulfellow stood on first, Pratt stood on second, and the henna sun stood...
There is nothing crisp and original in "The Paleface," just the old tried and true western cliches dressed up and put forth flawlessly. But in this case the result is a tremendous burlesque of all western epics, both serious and comic, with Bob Hope as the stalwart hero and Jane Russell as the prim heroine. Hope is a coward, and Miss Russell is hardly prim...
...anybody wants to find Art Valpey, Davey Nelson, Butch Jordan or thirty-six stalwart young men today, he'll have to put in a call to Watkins Glen, N.Y. This quaint little hamlet is where the Dunean Hines, of the H.A.A. has ledged the varsity football team for the Cornell weekend...
...Formula. The committee's other case centered on Yugoslav-born Steve Nelson, a Communist Party stalwart, onetime chairman of its San Francisco chapter. The committee, with rare restraint, did not identify Nelson's contact, an atomic researcher at the University...