Word: tearing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scrimmages during the next few days to prepare them for the coming Dartmouth encounter is certain. But it is not probable that he will resort to the old fashioned system of "fight week", when all the members of the squad worked themselves into a frenzy and then proceeded to tear each other to pieces. Without doubt such an event would put new energy into the team. But coming on the eve of the Dartmouth game with a series of hard games in sight, such a strenuous experiment might prove costly. Last year there was no fight week...
...least one of the ships will be towed, in order to furnish a moving target. Experiments will first be made with light tear-gas bombs-with men aboard the ships...
...hero of day dreams is no longer fashionable. Those who loved him drop a pathetic tear or turn to Robert W. Chambers. They give up their sophisticated friends and pine for literary atavism...
Today the undergraduate of the University has forgotten McKean, "Bloody Monday", and Reinhardt. He does not even know "Schneider's Band", a song endeared to the graduates. Even the battered bat is passing, though no one has yet thought to shed a tear over it. These superficials of college life are mere signs of the times, out-grown like other fashions. But the memory of the University's past creates a common background for the changing generations. Efforts like those of the Father and Son Societies, recently made effective by the "Sons of 1901", serve to bind the past more...
...varieties of expensive clothes as ever. The Dayton Photoproducts Company is said to have developed a practical film, made of paper, which can be marketed at about one-third of the cost of the present gelatine reel. The new product is said to be of standard width, hard to tear, imperishable and practically non-in-flammable-the new projection machine to cost in the neighborhood of $50, thus offering an opportunity for showing standard pictures in the home without great cost or serious risk of fire-two difficulties that have so far blocked all attempts toward "Every Home...