Word: stover
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entombed deep in the recesses of Firestone Library, Princeton has its own literary versions of Yale's Dink Stover and Harvard's Iron Duke, Books like A Princetonian and Adventures of a Freshman, forewarned the inexperienced, nineteenth century gentleman of perils and pleasures on the Nassau campus. 'The Victorian veneer of old-time literature has not entirely disappeared. A modern view of the Princeton campus reveals that Gothic and greeness live...
...whack on the back that will send 90 of them to the six great Senior societies. William Howard Taft had sweated it out (he went Skull & Bones); so had his son Robert (Bones), and Robert's political adversary, Dean Acheson (Scroll & Key). Even that fictional stalwart. Dink Stover (Bones), had trembled at the thought of Tap Day: "The morning was interminable, a horror. They did not even joke about the approaching ordeal. No one was so sure of election but that the possible rejection of some chum cast its gloom over...
Billings and Stover is selling the drug for the first time in about ten years. A druggist there said yesterday that around 1942 the University had requested them not to sell "No-Doz." He said they had abided by the request for ten years, but that this year had begun to sell it again, since, as he put it, "even grocery stores in the area stock...
...women's springboard-diving title, climbed the ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...
...farm at Myrtle Point. Ore. last week, 85-year-old Theodore Milton ("Tex") Stover got to reminiscing about one of his nephews, a youngster named Dwight Eisenhower, whom he last saw when Ike was nine. "That boy kinda worried his mother," said Uncle Tex. "We used to talk about that boy-thought he might become a criminal ... he was such a fun-loving youngster. He used to saw the backs off the kitchen chairs, but we could never see him do it." Stover said he was proud of the boy today, but still planned to vote as he always...