Word: toronto
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Room-wrecking is a tradition at Trinity College, University of Toronto. Sophomores do the wrecking in the rooms of the Freshmen. But a new Provost has arisen who regards room-wrecking and other developments of the hazing mores as exhibitions of "that innate vulgarity so common in America...
...born a Prohibition state and is standing true to the faith of its forefathers." Representative Hill of Alabama: "Great as is the victory the course is not yet finished." Senator Sheppard of Texas: "Prohibition in the United States is both a permanency and a success." Dr. Ben Spence of Toronto: "Canada is bounded on the south by the Volstead Act, but it's somewhat leaky." Senator Willis of Ohio: "If any one comes to Cleveland with a wet plank and produces it, we'll use it as a skid to send him into Lake Erie." W. J. Bryan...
...skating for women amateurs, 100-yds., unpaced, from a standing start: Gladys Robinson of Toronto, 10 2/5 sec., in Pittsburgh, Mass...
...eastern hockey capital, so that teams appearing there have a calibre of play above the ordinary. Thus in addition to the league-leading Boston Hockey Club and the Maples who fought them to a tie Saturday night, the University has encountered three strong Canadian combinations--the Aura Lees of Toronto, McGill, and Toronto University...
Vitamins. Two new vitamins, "Bios I" and "Bios II," have been found by Dr. W. Lash Miller, Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Toronto. A substance called bios (life) was discovered 20 years ago by a Belgian professor at Louvain University, but Dr. Miller, in experimenting on yeast, found that minute quantities of this substance greatly stimulated the growth of cells. In attempting to extract it from wort, he found that it could be split into the two new compounds...