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...first football mass meeting of the year held in the Living Room of the Union last evening was attended by a crowd which filled the room, the halls, and the gallery. A short cheer was tried and met with universal approval. It is intended for members of the team substituted or taken out of the game. Of the new songs tried, "Harvardians" was the most enthusiastically received...
...prize ($1,500) in the Carnegie International Exhibition of Paintings at Pittsburgh, against 356 other canvases by 296 other artists from 13 countries. A surrealist picture, South of Scranton was characterized by flat, bright colors, razor-sharp outlines. Rare indeed was the critic who dared to stand up and cheer for it. The New York Sun's Henry McBride, after a long description of his train trip to Pittsburgh during which a "sudden lurch" threw "an exceedingly handsome young woman'' into his arms, finally got around to saying: "The prize-awarding this year has been peculiarly indiscreet...
...Cambridge's mayoral processions touched off the smouldering spark at 8 o'clock last night, with a mob of about twenty Freshmen gathering to cheer and later to yell 'Rinehart." While Yard cops searched nooks and crannies of the Yard for the missing Colonel, the riot grew to Gargantuan proportions, practically doubling its original number of recruits. Only heroic action by the Yard's defenders broke the back of the rebellion...
Whatever its origin, the problem child was finally discovered by the night watchmen and, amid the mingled cheers and boos of Dunster-men was unceremoniously wheeled out through the gate, specially opened for the occasion. Its ears ringing with the echoing boom of a regular cheer for the Austin, the infant was trundled off to points unknown...
...early summer James P. ("Jimmy") Donahue, fabulously rich & prankish young Woolworth scion, thought of a good joke he could play on his cousin, fabulously rich & serious Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. His friend Marilyn Miller got Chorusman O'Brien to let him take a part in As Thousands Cheer one night. At the proper moment, when Marilyn Miller was impersonating Barbara Hutton in a skit, ''Jimmy" Donahue minced onstage in a princely uniform, fawned over the lady's hand. No one in the audience noticed the substitution, but it was the last straw for the managers...