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...keenness of the autumn is in the air. The haberdashers are showing their new suitings. The perennial college boys are going in to the musical comedy with the same abandon of cheerful laughter, of jingling silver, and of bright fall neckties. It might be that nothing is lacking, that the football games and the hockey games and the baseball games should make out the year. The old order changes, but it changes exceeding hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RETURN. | 9/25/1917 | See Source »

...article is also noteworthy in that it appears on the same day that the Emergency Council at Yale, through the Yale News, advises men to continue their physical and mental training for future service to the Government, rather than abandon the present training for immediate but less effectual service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "HYSTERIA SHOULD NOT DRIVE MEN TO ENLIST" | 5/23/1917 | See Source »

...view of the prevailing necessity for attention to military training it has been decided to abandon all Freshman musical activities, including the Jubilee, for the remainder of the year. Dr. A. T. Davison '06, who has had general charge of the Freshman singing, has deemed such a move advisable, but as 1920 has shown more interest in singing than any previous class, it is probable that with the resumption of normal College activities future classes will carry on the work so well begun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1920 MUSICAL PLANS CANCELLED | 4/24/1917 | See Source »

...result of a ballot in which only 30 out of 300 members of the class voted, plans for the first-year Law School smoker which was to have been held in April have been abandoned. The ballot indicated that the members of the class were not sufficiently interested in the entertainment to contribute the time necessary to make it a success. In addition to this the general opinion that the first-year smokers do little to promote social intercourse among members of the class has led the committee in charge, with the approval of the Faculty, to abandon the smoker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Year Law Smoker Given Up | 3/14/1917 | See Source »

...movie" number of the Lampoon bursts upon Cambridge today and presents unrestricted sensationalism that has ever aroused undergraduate enthusiasm. All the country's celebrities with whom our gilded youth are most intimately acquainted are described and portrayed in the bold and naked phrases of Lampy's best style. The abandon that characterizes this detailed exposure of the cinematograph world convinces the reader of the utter unreality of that film land of wonders...

Author: By G. B. B. ., | Title: Lampy Lets Reader In On Some Intimate Movie Gossip | 3/9/1917 | See Source »

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