Word: tapped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Skull. But that lets me write you what those modest boys wouldn't be able to-that right here in New Brunswick is one of the dandiest old colleges in the country and in that college is one of the finest societies going. It had its Tap Day on the 25th and elected, among others, "Les" Hanf, next year's football captain, and George Schutzendorf, one of the best track athletes in the East . Perhaps you've forgotten about things since you moved way out west there to Cleveland...
...Tap...
...management. The "recreation and leisure" section included exercise and sports such as golf and tennis, reading, not in preparation for classroom work, lectures and concerts, theatres and movies, card-playing, "parties", in the pre-Volstead sense, dances and social activities, informal discussions and that bugbear of the weeks before Tap Day, the "dope session," at which the undergraduate solemly argues Bill Jones's chance to be tapped last man for Skull and Bones, or whether Wolf's Head or Elihu Club will provide a haven for Jim Smith...
...alms, and shrewdly searching through their rheumy eyes the charitable potentialities of the stranger. At the Cathedral, too, the stranger from the U.S. will note the peculiar fashion in which the natives, who are mostly Roman Catholics, cross themselves. They make the regular gestures of the cross, then tap the nape of the neck...
...musical reporters bustled away to tap out the ideas that had come to them while they listened to the Manager Gatti's rolling syllables. The fact that he has engaged fewer new singers than ever before is inevitable, they pointed out; he has most of the good ones now. But significant is the fact that in the thin receiving-line of operatic debutantes there are three Americans. This is Manager Gatti-Casazza's second answer to the drone of those who protest that the Metropolitan ignores native talent. His first?a remark made last year?was: "Find me an American...