Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prove the power of mind over matter, and equally anxious--in the interests of science, of course--to disprove the learned Columbia professor's theory that one would refuse to eat a worm for a thousand dollars Dudley N. Hartt, Jr. '37 gave a demonstration in the Dunster House Dining Hall yesterday evening which showed conclusively that given a certain amount of stimulation one can eat even more gastrically fatal things than a nice fresh worm. Before a roomful of awed waitresses and a horrified steward, who took the act to be a personal insult, the talented Sophomore casually emptied...
...Worm-Eaters...
...varsity crew. California, once conquered by but ready to try again, will not be spurned as a contender. In the East, is looked upon with favor, while Cornell remains the perennial dark Tradition decrees that Columbia will be there, but the loser, in a close finish, the worm turns, for in four close finishes, the Morningside Heights boat has second best four times. Navy, under young Buck Walsh, may triumph, since a crew is always considered dangerous in rough water. Can Callow do for Pennsylvania what he used to do at Washington and what the Ouskers have done--turn...
...stomachs of those who have never experienced an Eliot House repast, there may lurk the false assumption that Lowell House has a monopoly on worm-ridden fish, bad eggs, wizened grape-fruit, oily orange-juice, moribund chops, all-wool pancakes, bilious liver, vegetables that smell as sweet by any other name, and so forth, down the pallid lists of the oleaginous concatenation of convalescing vitamins served at room temperature and garnished with the cadavers of the insect world. My gorge rises at the thought! I challenge any of the seven cross-sections to greater right to complaint. For the honor...
...early birds may get not only their traditional worm this week, but they will probably see eight muilled figures jogging through the early mists across the Anderson bridge to the Powerhouse bridge and return every morning. The Varsity mittmen have taken to roadwork, and their energy at the heathen hour is part of an intensive training increase wind and decrease weight for their fracas with the Bulldog on Saturday afternoon...