Word: tap
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Generations of schoolboys have held their breath at Owen Johnson's description of Yale's Tap Day in Stover at Yale (1911). In the eyes of a few incurable schoolboys, being tapped for Skull & Bones still ranks second only to being President of the U. S. Founded in 1832 by a group of disgruntled Phi Beta Kappa-rejects, Bones is the oldest and most sacred of Yale's six senior secret societies (Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club, Book & Snake, Berzelius...
...about 200 hopeful juniors gather on the grass in Branford College court (until 1933 they stood by the Fence in front of Durfee on the old campus). At the stroke of 5, senior members of the societies, wearing their pins, black ties and blue suits, march through the crowd, tap their men. A tappee hustles (see cut) to his room, followed closely by his tapper, or shakes his head (refusal). Each society picks 15. Tapping usually ends when the Battell Chapel clock strikes 6, but in 1936 Wolf's Head, turned down by 17 tappees, went on tapping long...
Alcohol is plentiful here and not restricted to three sale-days a week. Motor and man drink from the same tap...
...Bolger, the Tin Man in "The Wizard of Oz" and a famed tap dancer, Virginia O'Brien, co-starring with Bolger in "Keep of the Grass," opening in Boston April 29 may possibly appear with other members of the cast, while Ray Guild, winner of first prize in the Freshman Amateur Hour Wednesday night, and the Wessel brothers, who appeared on Major Bowes program and are now in Steubens in Boston, have a series of impersonations to amuse the crowd...
...billiards at Harvard, whose business card reads "show me a shot I can't make." Sample Peterson shot: standing a half-dollar on its rim between two cubes of chalk in the centre of the table, sending it to the cushion and back between the cubes, with one tap...