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...Yale bandleader dropped his baton. The Harvard bass drum tipped over at a crucial moment. Incongruous in the smart Bowl crowd were two members of a traveling circus, a giant and a midget in a tall silk hat. In the interval after the third period, a spectator ran the length of the field, threw his hat over the Harvard goal posts, snickered at the crowd...
...Baton Rouge, La., Nov. 26--Senator Huey Long's attempt to censor the "Reveille," student newspaper at Louisiana State University, resulted tonight in resignation of the entire staff, except one member...
...this fall. From the drop of the hat at the Bates game, they have consistently outfought their opposition, formed more and bigger letters on the field, and completely hypnotized the audience with their symphonic renderings. New uniforms of surpassing beauty have been obtained, the drum major has dropped his baton but a single time, and excepting the persistent bashfulness of the big drum between the halves, the job has been exceptionally well done...
Credit for the success of the band is due in a large degree to two men, to Franklin Anderson, director, orchestrator, and baton-waver extraordinary, and to director Guy Slade in whose nightmares must course new schemes for dotting an i amid endless streams of running bandsmen. To these men, and to the members of the band for the interest they have shown, and for the work they have expended, Harvard extends her thanks...
...Senator then rushed off to Baton Rouge to address a pep meeting in behalf of his political football team, Louisiana State University. The team was getting ready to trounce George Washington University in Washington, 6-to-0. In its absence, "Kingfish" Long proclaimed that the rally constituted a parish meeting, solemnly had Right Halfback Abe Mickal elected State Senator...