Word: tap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand for wheat for food in most countries is comparatively inelastic. In order to tap extensively the strata of elastic demand-for food in China, for example, for feed in many countries, and for industrial uses-prices cruelly low to wheat producers are necessary. Temporarily this may be inevitable...
...more of his annual examinations to scientifically-minded boys, no more scholarships. Explanation offered: none. The name of the Yale junior who last month in The Harkness Hoot attacked Yale's senior honor societies and urged his classmates to boycott them by staying in their rooms on Tap Day, was Richard Storr Quids (TIME, May 4). Last week came Tap Day. Junior Childs stayed in his room. When a senior from Scroll & Key knocked on the door, Junior Childs let him in, took the tap, joined...
Yale's stormy petrels, whose shrill cries have lately uncovered many sins, have been busy unearthing new terrors beneath Harkness Gothicana. One of the latest skeletons in the new cupboard is traditional "Tap Day" which for some time has been the occasional target of campus with as well as of crusading journalism of both conservative and radical timbre. "The Alumni Weekly" demanding a new society system based on the new housing conditions strikes at the method of soliciting membership as being the most demoralizing of the old ways. "The Harkness Boot" printed an article entitled "The Elks in Our Midst...
...history of those traditions, about which our less enlightened fathers would become pleasurably reminiscent it they were not afraid of the laughter of the kindergarden, is brought to mind by the premonition that Yale's "Tap Day" yesterday is perhaps its last. All pros and cons of its observance aside, it seems unfortunate that college traditions of that type should be taken so seriously as to require abolishment. The presence of such social amenities would form a pleasant part of college life if sophistication were not swallowed so naively. When the collegian grows cynical about his cynicism, more distrustful...
...Yale public." And in The Harkness Hoot, newest, most forthright of Yale journals, appeared "The Elks in Our Midst," by Richard S. Childs, Yale junior, suggesting that the Senior Societies be abolished by boycott, that the Junior class refrain from appearing "like slaves for sale upon the campus on Tap Day." The Yale Daily News, edited by juniors, and whose chairman is automatically in line for tapping, had printed Keysman Hobson's letter, and reprinted the Weekly editorials. Last week, making no mention of Societies, it said: "We can only say that the Hoot would be more palatable...