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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...yore. Preparations for the big game are well under way, and the whole College is enthusiastically looking forward to a season which will avenge the defeat of 1916. In Captain Murray the team has chosen a good man, and it will follow him with a new determination to twist the tail of the bull-dog until he yelps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FOOTBALL CAPTAIN. | 10/4/1919 | See Source »

Despite the fact that wind and rain hindered the University match, nevertheless, fast tennis was played. Captain Larmon of Dartmouth used a reverse twist service to great advantage while G. W. Helm '19's clever placing was of great value to the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THREE TENNIS TEAMS WON | 5/12/1919 | See Source »

...amorously uninterested in the governmental, C. A. Clark, Jr., '19 Anna, sister of the King, Cupid's contribution to Bolshevism, H. C. Flower, Jr., '19 Borus, would be president of a would be republic of Czecho-Ptomania, C. Canfield '19 Catherine, sister of Borus, a socialist with a social twist, D. H. Read '19 General Hupincoff, J. Lavalle, J.r, '18 Colonel Umptski, A. Horween '20 Gumbutoff, Anabaptistical Attendant Idolizing Borus, R. H. Ware '20 Flitch, his dog, a Ptomania fleece-hound, The Dog Peter B. Heinz, of the 57 Workshop, Author of the Book, and admits it, C. LaFarge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAVESTY BOLSHEVISM IN PUDDING COMEDY | 4/11/1919 | See Source »

...will listen to you with a humorous twinkle in his eye realizing that he cannot answer the contentions of those who espouse the cause of the profession, but at the same time believing that the very strength of the argument against him is due to some subtle twist of logic that lawyers only are capable of using. He who doubts this need only to accost the first laborer he meets and lead him into a discussion of the matter...

Author: By Dean HILL Stanley, | Title: INSTILLS CONFIDENCE IN LAW | 3/17/1919 | See Source »

...tail that twitches nervously, the Tiger at bay in Brooklyn awaits the attack of the University seven. Well may his tail twitch, too, for the veteran conquerors of the Blue plan to experiment in fancy knot tying with that caudal appendage, and to playfully add one more twist to that which the Bulldog gave it a short time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TIGER AWAITS DEFEAT. | 2/21/1919 | See Source »

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