Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Fear has been expressed that the club agreement, printed in its final form this morning, will bring about a "tap day" in the University. But an examination of the agreement will show that there is little danger that prospective club members will have to line up in front of University Hall or anywhere else to be slapped fraternally on the shoulder by their brethren in the bond. Elections will proceed much as before; small groups of men will be taken into the clubs at intervals and without ostentation; there will be no hectic social Waterloo as at Yale...
...Haven, Conn., May 20.--Last Thursday was Tap Day at Yale. At the request of the junior class, the elections to the three senior societies were celebrated for the first time in Berkeley Oval. The feature of the event was the turning down of Skull and Bones...
...knack of realizing atmosphere at second hand may well bear the palm before more worthy rivals. But we had thought the reproach attaching to prize poems spent chiefly upon this very occasional quality of theirs! The subjects proposed are certainly of timely interest, and for that reason they may tap a genuine enthusiasm somewhere; but it would seem that the purpose of the class of '88 might be served with more assurance of success were these more catholic in range. And the undergraduate mind discovers no reason why, so far as subject matter goes, the Garrison Prize should...