Word: novelizations
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...they did so last year with no beneficial results; but the method of their action then was so distasteful to the undergraduates that the attempt on their part at radical change was not genuine and so came to nothing. Then the idea of faculty interference in athletics was so novel and disagreeable, that the students simply bucked against it recklessly. Now the idea of interference, although no less disagreeable, perhaps, has lost all of its novelty, and we realize that, as the power to act undoubtedly lies with the faculty, we must show cause why they should not take...
Thanksgiving day was celebrated in Cambridge in a novel manner. About ten o'clock a number of students gathered on Jarvis Field to see the long-talked-of match between the elevens chosen from the waiters at the upper and lower ends of Memorial Hall. The two elevens appeared, or rather straggled upon the field at about the same time, and were the subject of universal comment and admiration. The blues were headed by a pair of 200-pounders, about as large around as they were tall, while to offset them the reds showed up a couple of six-footers...
...childhood. Immediately after the war, characters such as are described in the book undoubtedly existed in large numbers. but the tendency of latter years has been to soften these rabid sectional views. The work, although slightly overdrawn, is full of life and incident, and ranks with the average reconstruction novel...
...field sports of Michigan University last week, one rather novel event was to capture a greased pig. The prize for capturing the unfortunate animal was a set of Dictens' works valued at twenty-two dollars. The Co-operative society of the university offered the prize. THe Michigan Argonaut says that "this new and most enjoyable feature of the exercises is one that should be retained in the future...
...present year is a novel one in the history of the University. There has probably never before been such an active interest taken in a political campaign by our students. The undergraduates are very nearly evenly divided in their preference as to candidates; a state of affairs which has resulted in increasing the desire of all to do something to help along the cause which they have chosen for their own. All the torchlight parading, past and to come, is very well in its way, serving as it does to show the good will of the students toward...