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...examination, after he has left his dark corner, slinking around like a beaten hound, scarce daring to collect the books; his face no longer wears a smile...
...proposition of a letter delivery does not meet with much favor; "to go to the post-office after supper, and wait around until the mail is distributed is such a pleasant duty...
...stimulus of 10 to 0. Perhaps there is where the screw is loose. Betting may change luck. One youth of Princeton was pointed out as having a pot of $500 which he was willing to put up. A crowd of already disappointed strangers from Connecticut instantly and quickly drew around the individual. They represented a "putting up" capacity of $20,000. The man, seeing himself surrounded, fled. Pool-selling, recently abolished from New York, is soon to be driven from New Jersey - and that pernicious habit prevalent among the Jersey college men of making pools of ten cents, etc., will...
...attempting to steal second by Tyng to Sawyer. In the twenty-third Carl missed Dow's foul bound; the latter then retired by the sharp fielding of Woodhead to Cogswell. Sawyer flied to Say; Leeds hit hard to Woodhead, who threw wildly to Cogswell; Leeds then, by dancing around his base, annoyed Snigg into a wild pitch, which gave him his third, where he was left by Tyng striking out; Mincher retired by Leeds to Wright, a good assistance; Say drove a hot liner to Ernst, who caught it in his right hand; Dailey hit for a base, and reached...
...some years influences tending to materially change the nature of Class Day have been at work. With the increase of numbers in the classes came the abolishment of the rush around the tree; then the tree exercises themselves were attacked severely by those who thought all such exhibitions boyish in the extreme; the office of chaplain was dropped or resumed at the pleasure of the particular class; and each year has made more evident the fact that Class Day is enjoyable, not because of its literary exercises, or because of its class-tree exercises, but because of the social enjoyment...