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Much excitement was caused in Baltimore a few days ago by the discovery of an attempt by students of the University of Maryland to rob a grave in Mt. Olivet Cemetery. The attempt was discovered by the cemetery watchmen about midnight and the students were chased some distance, but made good their escape. No arrests have yet been made...
...dining room with him. Truly it seems as though some remedy were imperative. Cannot the board of managers do some thing? Is there not some means by which each umbrella could be checked? We commend it to the association to break up this practice of "borrowing," and at least attempt to devise some better arrangement than the existing...
...against the choir boys is certainly remarkable and worthy of a better cause. But we do not think that any talk about the "substitution of infant squeaks for manly groans" will have any perceptible effect upon voluntary prayers. For the present at least, we must have prayers and any attempt at improvement in the services ought to be received as such...
...threatened Exeter's goal for some minutes, by the hard playing of the school eleven the ball was driven back. Finally Holden secured the ball and by a long and brilliant run,-the feature of the game,-scored a touchdown for Exeter. The ball was brought in but the attempt to kick a goal was a failure. After some more loose play on both sides time was called with the score two to nothing in favor of Exeter...
...Claflin, Harvard and Massachusetts Bicycle clubs, and Mr. H. D. Corey, Massachusetts Bicycle club, started last Wednesday night at 12 o'clock in an attempt to break the road record for twenty-four hours. In the early morning Mr. Claflin got a severe header, bruising and cutting himself badly, and though he pluckily rode over seventy miles more he was forced to give up at Newburyport, having ridden in all 107 miles in 10 3-4 hours. Mr. Corey continued and by 12 o'clock Thursday night had ridden 190 9-10 miles, thus beating the record by over...