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...more than three days, the North Atlantic seemed to give up to Captain Kurt Carlsen and his crippled Flying Enterprise. The British tug Turmoil plowed homeward through a placid sea, her five-inch steel towline dragging the wallowing Flying Enterprise. Aboard the listing Isbrandtsen freighter, Carlsen and Mate Kenneth Dancy of the Turmoil settled down for the trip into Falmouth. People all over the world read the headlines, and hoped...
...Tug on the Vine. Only the gamblers are disgruntled about the visitation. State officials, fearing headlines in this year of Kefauver, sent word along the grapevine: shut down while the President is in town. The Saturday before he landed, Duval...
Pictured at right is the tug-of-war in the sophomore, freshman canespree held every fall. This is the feature attraction in an afternoon of hoopla and capering which includes track races and field events. The competition is always between members of the sophomore and freshman classes, and is part of the fall sophomore "hazing" of the new frosh. In this picture, taken last year, the freshmen are in the process of winning the tug-of-war, and beginning a two-year reign over their opposition, continuing this year as sophomores...
...lost most of its meaning, but it refers to a three-foot cane that one of the two classes tries to wrest from the grasp of the other. Nowadays the canespree has become a much larger series of events, and the name-event is not as important as the tug-o'-war or the track and field events that now make up the program...
...took a risk on that," he continued, "We stopped having freshmen eat in a separate hall from upperclassmen. We couldn't lose the tug-of-war too. But you know," mused the white-haired dean, "older people around here sometimes get awfully fed up with this sort of foolishness...