Word: trojan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Favorable to most of the avowed aims of national veterans organizations, William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, nevertheless warned an audience of 300 that "the Trojan horse comes in various guises," and that veterans should "observe the methods" of the four groups represented at the Student Council forum in Sanders Theatre Wednesday evening...
...their sword bury itself in the breast of a disarmed enemy who is in the very act of pleading at their knees. We see them triumph over a dying man by describing to him the outrages his corpse will endure. We see Achilles cut the throats of twelve Trojan boys on the funeral pyre of Patroclus as naturally as we cut flowers for a grave. These men, wielding power, have no suspicion of the fact that the consequences of their deeds will at length come home to them-they too will bow the neck in their turn...
...campus newspaper, Daily Trojan, fraternity men howled their indignation. But non-fraternity men, sick of T.N.E. domination, hailed the President's action. Said one: "They ought to suspend every member...
...climbed on the back of our Trojan buddie Randolph "Pits" Phillips, editorially speaking, but he really isn't the soap-shirker we make him out to be. Oh, did you hear how the Count de Wright got pigeoned into going down for cakes? Oh, well, you can't have your own cake...
...Folderol. There are now 80-odd student veterans at the University of Southern California, some of them in their third semester. From the start they have had trouble with the fraternities. To many of them fraternity folderol seemed childish, fraternity members immature. They formed their own club, the Trovets (Trojan Veterans).* Fraternity pride was deeply hurt. At first the fraternities tried to control the Trovets, since then have been openly hostile to it. On several occasions notices and reports of Trovet meetings submitted to The Daily Trojan have been "somehow misplaced...