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...passed around for the friends to take a last look at the contents, - simply a foot-ball with painted frill fastened in the head of the coffin; while the spade-bearers plied their spades industriously in digging the grave. The elegist then - in the most excessively mock-sanctimonious manner, amid sighs and sobs and groans and lamentations which might have been heard for a mile, read an address and a poem." The address was a very amusing eulogy on the character and merits of the dearly beloved and highly respected game. After the address the gifted speaker read a poem...
...References to passing events may serve to attract attention - if made eloquently they may move, if made blunderingly they may amuse or disgust - but the office of daily prayers is to bring the passing and casual under the shadow of the eternal; to make a man feel that amid the confusion of his hurried life, he can lay hold of an unvarying, underlying truth...
...some lively playing Austin made a daring rush over the slimy ground and was forced outside nearly upon the five yard line. The ball was brought out fifteen yards, and snapped back to Fiske, who sent it spinning over the centre of the bar by a beautiful drop kick, amid the cheers of the seniors. For a moment the eighty-six men almost forgot that it was cold and wet, but two smart rushes by Holden and Porter recalled them to their senses, and the dangerous way in which the sophomores forced the fight made the game extremely interesting. About...
...contrast with the turbulent scenes of Thursday night, the '88 meeting last evening was singularly harmonious and decorous. Mr. Adams was unanimously re-elected president, and Mr. Woodman, vice-president, amid prolonged applause. The unanimity of the meeting was broken as regards the secretaryship, Mr. F. B. Lund being elected to that position by a very narrow margin, and Mr. Amory to that of treasurer by a practically unanimous vote. The officers of the class teams were also unanimously elected amid applause, Mr. Woodman enjoying a re-election as captain of the crew, Mr. Holden being chosen to the captaincy...
...that Boylston Hall was packed to overflowing full fifteen minutes before the hour set. The meeting remained in a chaotic state for some minutes, but finally Mr. W. T. Kimball took the chair, and called for order. Order (?) having been obtained, the class proceeded to elect a president, and amid confusion unspeakable it was discovered that Mr. Perry T. Trafford, of Exeter, had been unanimously chosen for that office...