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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Bones men are supposed to wear their pins at all times, hold them in their mouths while taking a shower. They are reputed to give each other philosophers' names as nicknames. When a Bones man marries, the 14 other Bones men in his class are ushers at his wedding. After the normal ceremony, they retire with the bride and groom into another room, there conduct a special Bones ceremony. They invariably give the bride a grandfather clock...
Dink Stover protested (before he was tapped) that Tap Day was "ridiculous rigmarole." Twenty years later Richard Storrs Childs, '32 (now publisher of Modern Age Books), also denounced "the Elks in our midst," shortly afterward accepted election to Keys. In 1933 the entire junior class revolted, stayed stubbornly in their rooms on Tap Day. The societies pursued them to their rooms, had no trouble filling their quotas. Next year, Tap Day returned to the campus. This year the Political Union held an unprecedented public debate, resolved (3840-17) that "the influence of the senior societies...
...stock in Curtiss-Wright Corp., owner of the No. 1 U. S. aircraft& -engine backlog (TIME, April 1). Announced by Mr. Odium with the approval of Curtiss-Wright's President Guy Warner Vaughan, this super-Burbank financial tree-grafting took Wall Street by surprise, filled at least one class of Curtiss-Wright stockholders with articulate alarm...
Although Donald MacD. D. Thurber's feature article. "The Truth About '40 will omit any discussion of sex, it will tell everything else about the class, and its 16 pages will be liberally spiced with literary and photographic humor, Donnell declared...
Died. Rt. Rev. George Craig Stewart, 60, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Chicago; of a heart attack; on his way to a confirmation class in Chicago...