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Coach Herbert went on to explain how the Candians gradually adopted the game, name it "Lacrosse" because of the resemblance which the sticks bore to a bishop's crosse, refined it, reduced the number of players to 25, and played on a field 200 instead of 2000 yards square. Dr. W. G. Beers of Quebee earned his title of "the originator of modern lacrosse" by formulating a set of rules in 1867, when also lacrosse was adopted as Canada's national game...
...Smith bore the brunt of the Crimson attack in the first half. While the Worcester defenders were busy covering Gordon, the Sophomore forward caged four goals. In the second half, however, the Crimson leader came to the fore and brought his scoring total for the evening to 16 points. Harvard Worcester Tech. Smith, r.f. l.g., Delphos Gordon, Merriam, l.f. r.g., Higgins, Gross Samborski, Black, r.g. l.f., Bittner Rudofsky, l.g. r.f., Sharpe...
...Thomas Myerscough of Pittsburgh, Secretary of the Progressive International Committee of the United Mine Workers (a communist organization attempting to "bore from within" the union) applied for reinstatement in the union. The Committee on Appeals and Grievances denied his request because he had organized a "dual" union (political and industrial...
...miser once married a woman whose profile duplicated one he had seen on a coin. The tale is told by O. Henry. Since the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, more than 770,000,000 silver dollars*; have been minted. They have been admired for the beautiful head they bore. According to the designer, George Morgan, it was a portrait of the most perfect head he had ever seen. Whose? That of a Philadelphia schoolmistress, who never married-Miss Anna W. Williams. She resigned last week after 40 years' service in Philadelphia schools. As supervisor of kindergartens she had acquired...
...Conant's predecessor, old Jones the Bell-ringer, as he was called, who bore the brunt of the attacks in the old days. For 44 years he protected the bell and its clapper from an infinite variety of plots by undergraduates seeking a few extra hours of sleep in the morning. Mr. Conant described a few of the methods used, "Besides stealing the clapper, the boys used to tie up the bell with a rope. And in the wintertime they turned it upside down, filled it with water, and let it freeze." In order to avoid the padlocks, the usual...