Word: vag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow would be Thursday, and Vag knew exactly what Society would expect of him. It would expect him to go to Church and register gratitude all over his face and then go out somewhere and stuff said face just as full of turkey and cranberry sauce as he could. That was Thanksgiving...
...Vag had always wondered what he should be thankful for on Thanksgiving. If he said he was thankful for his new roller-skates, God would think he was easily satisfied. And if (in this Year of Grace) he pulled in some big, white, fluffy word like "peace," God would know he was just another hypocrite praying through...
...Vag is an old friend of Hacker's. In fact, Hacker calls Vag "the Duke" for reasons which Vag will not go into now. He first heard of Hacker when their mutual tutor in their sophomore year wondered where that guy Wilson was. There was a rumor to the effect that he played football. He was a jolly easy-going fellow, and Vag, as he watched the games that fall, never could quite understand how he could change so suddenly into a ferocious blocker and tackler on the field. He knows now. Three years of watching Hacker in the blocking...
Then there's Austie, who didn't get much out of Lake's course when he sat next to Vag, but who can really concentrate his interest when it comes to calling the plays. There's Frank, who, like Austie, is a real triple threat man every moment he is on the field. There's rollicking Ben, who learned many lessons in patience and persistence while waiting for Vern to graduate. There's burly Mike, whose fierce competition with Ben made both of them better men. There's big Ken, who looks so docile and lumbering but about whom enemy...
Neither wild horses nor galloping consumption nor a hurricane could keep Vag from the Yale Bowl tomorrow afternoon. He must be there to see the final football bow of these Seniors who, with their capable Junior and Sophomore compatriots, will go "all out" for Dick--and for the rest of us who are Harvard...