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...exaggerating altogether. There is considerable room for new Freshmen with a hankering for trackish traditions like wintergreen, warm-packed loam and cinders, sweatsuits and leather running shoes. The current Freshman team has more openings than a hunk of swiss cheese, and the Varsity has a few cavities, too, particularly in the sprint department. Freshman veterans are eligible to fill these cavities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Trackmen to Augment Varsity, Freshman Squads | 1/30/1947 | See Source »

...forth in Old Dame Fashion's latest. This, it was agreed, accounted for the supremacy of Princeton and Yale over Harvard when it comes to setting the styles. Harvard is not style conscious, the Knights of the Garter conceded, and her sons scoff at the new and seemingly "race-trackish" models in clothes, only to adhere to them a year or so later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Square Haberdashers Brand Students as Afraid To Wear Latest Styles -- Princeton and Yale Named Leaders | 3/24/1933 | See Source »

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