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...field. Eighty-Six is more doubtful, but headed by its university players might try their luck. Eighty-Seven already has a well organized twelve of considerable merit with several men in reserve. Lastly, if '88 brings out a good number players, they have already a good nucleus to rally around in order to form a team. If the interest is only great enough, the Lacrosse Association will doubtless furnish a pennant for such a championship as the base ball association proposes to do in its branch or sport...
Tuesday evening, a party of students at Yale b. lit a fire around the old historical Durfee pump. The dry woodwork of the pump soon caught fire, and the perpetrators of the deed yelled for St. John from the safe seclusion of a window while the pump burned fiercely...
...duties. Here, too, are the latest improvements in machinery, which saves a vast amount of labor. You can get some idea of the rapidity of work, when you consider the fact that when our present steward first entered upon his duties, there were scarcely enough table clothes to go around once, and when soiled, had to be washed, dried, and ironed between meals. So much for the laundry, a mere incident in the general management...
...apparatus of the photographer, happened to come into the room during this operation, and seeing two legs sticking out of the bed where the head ought to be. seized a piece of rope and calling for help, tied the unlucky man securely to the bed by winding the rope around both. Ever after this there has been a doubt in the landlady's mind about the sanity of my friend, and in his, about the strength of her mind. But it is quite needless to say that he is now more careful in his choice of dark rooms...
...game is demoralizing to the spectators mainly through its brutality; unfair play they usually fail to recognize. We often heard cries of "kill him." "break his neck" "slug him," "hit him," "knock him down," from those around...