Word: stunting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...five children under the age of twelve arrived at the college on the afternoon of January 5, the Greek Orthodox Christmas day. The college fellows were splendid hosts to the youngsters. Games were played; then the "kiddies" enjoyed three reels of a "movie" comedy. Then each orphanage performed a stunt for the benefit of the rest. Several groups sang songs. One of the little Russian boys in the uniform of a Junior Boy Scout recited very impressively a poem which was an expression of gratitude to the foreigners who had adopted and befriended the refugee peoples of Russia. About...
...average was about $15.00. Williams suggested a sliding scale, by which the amount a student contributes to the A. A. depends on the cost of his room. The University of Vermont delegate stated that the Vermont A. A. annually raised a large amount of money by a kind of stunt night, called a "Cakewalk", at which each class gave some entertainment...
...tennis, track, swimming and baseball. Through these the men from different colleges become acquainted and have an opportunity to find out what is being done at other colleges in all phases of work. A Vaudeville show will be given during the conference in which each delegation will perform a stunt and sing one of their songs. The Preparatory School Conference will be held near by at the same time and its members will have supper on one night of the conference with the delegations from the colleges which they expect...
...taste of true music lovers and endeavors to raise the standards of male choral work in the West, thus doing for the Coast what Harvard has done for the East. For its popular concerts it has prepared a program of lighter numbers and carries with if soloists, stunt men, and a complete college orchestra. This orchestra, by the way, is the envy of all professional musicians who have heard it. The sophisticated audience of the Hotel Ambassador in Santa Barbara gave them encore after encore and the management endeavored to sign them up with a vacation contract. Stanford Illustrated Review...
...course this is a stunt for chemistry students--not for the press--perhaps more than anything else to see what they can do in the line of making "hooch," as outsiders do in concocting "homebrew." It would not do to believe that nitre cocktails have become a steady drink for the boys. VERITAS...