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...Strict Code Acceptable...
...League requirements would have to be modeled after the much neglected Tri-Presidents' agreement, and here for the last time Harvard could write her own ticket-thereafter, she would be one of a group of equals. The strict code would find willing acceptance among enthusiastic colleges; even Pennsylvania and Cornell might agree to do an about face and become suitable Ivy bedfellows...
Recently he had been forced, for political considerations (there was a campaign on), to banish from his side a number of his closest friends, headed by stringy, loyal Harry Hopkins. The strict procession of his daily chores, his day-&-night responsibility for the U. S. (there was a world revolution on) had left him few minutes in any day for the relaxations a plain citizen may enjoy...
...happens that the All-American, All-Ivy backfield come to Pottawatomie as bodyguard (with strict hands-off contract) for Lucille Ball, the hardest woman to handle since Lucretia Borgia. She and Frances Langford carry the torch songs while P. U., playing against Columbia, Pitt, and even Cornell, becomes the highest team in America in points scored--for and against. Fourth Horseman Desi Arnaz, an argentine, prairie wolf, shows possibilities of becoming the greatest threat to American womanhood since the fourteen-day diet. And Harvard's quarterback, Eddie Bracken, (who knocked down more passes in 1939 than any American except Ginger...
...coaxers committed a serious sin against the First Commandment of pious and right-living cheer leaders. The boys simply weren't together. Counterpoint is fine in a Beethoven concerto, and uneven entrance and exit of voices the distinguishing characteristic of a Bach fugue. But the well-ordered cheer is strict harmony; and the cheering section will never be harmonious until the leaders all move the same way at the same time. Individualism has no place in cheer-leading--it has to be done as Hitler would have...