Word: goldfish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goldfish marked time in their Thayer Hall bowl yesterday and anxiously awaited a University ruling on their legality...
...started when Watkins' maid said, "I think they're illegal," and reported the goldfish to the dorm janitor. The latter didn't care personally as long as he "wouldn't have to clean up after them...
Along with goldfish gulping and backgammon, the last few years have witnessed the virtual disappearance of rugger from the Cambridge scene. To the contemporary undergraduate the name "rugby" might identify a town in North Dakota exalted as "the geographic center of North America" just as readily as it would be associated with a British athletic indulgence occasionally practiced in the United States...
March of Science. In Middletown, Conn., Professor Hubert B. Goodrich of Wesleyan University announced that he had developed a method for grafting initials on goldfish...
...book of College regulations that is as heartless as it is unbelievable. It goes: "No student shall keep an animal in a College building," and within those few terse words is a world of misery and denied love. Picture to yourself the Yardling who has to leave his beloved goldfish at home for the cook to tend, while he goes out to face the bleakness of Stoughton Hall, alone. A real General Education will have to wait until the onerous ukase is removed...