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...open-air Hearst Greek Theater at Berkeley, Calif, one day last week, 8,000 new students sat waiting. As the warm sun beat down on them, the band blared out Hail to California. A huge, hearty figure strode on stage. The yell leader called for a "Six." The big man stood listening to the cheer with a big smile. Then he called for another chorus of Hail to California; he helped out with his bathtub baritone. Then silence fell. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the nation's largest university (41,451 full-time students), began to speak. As everybody...
...they yell hard enough they'll get Wintergreen on Saturday," University Band officials promised last night, adding that the musicians didn't open their full bag of tricks at the Western Maryland game because "the entire B.U. band was in the stands...
John had yet to develop such poise. Once John became so fascinated with the Utah scenery that he borrowed three rolls of film from a news photographer, ran them through his Brownie. When the photographer refused to lend him any more, John let go a disappointed yell. The Governor had to restore order...
...pressure was off. For another six weeks now he would not have to hear a bullying proctor yell hoarsely, "Social Relations 12 sit in every other seat. Face this side of the room." And the terrifying, huge numbers on the blackboard, tersely announcing that he had seven minutes left for the last three questions. Which ones should he have taken out of the possible five? He agreed with all the statements in quotes; they all sounded reasonable, and he had put down a few odd facts he had learned in some history course last fall...
...converted himself from a lecherous, iconoclastic youth into an apostolic, vegetarian writer of Christian tracts ("I am ashamed to speak of my disgusting body," he said). But a rabbit had only to jump up under his feet to make him let out a hunter's bloodthirsty yell. One evening, out of sheer exuberance of animal spirits, the "elderly prophet" sprang onto his father-in-law's shoulders and perched there grinning. "He probably jumped down again at once," says Author Mann gravely, "but-it gives one an uncanny feeling...