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Crocker will probably catch in the Boston-Harvard base-ball game on Saturday...
...played their first game together on the Boston grounds Saturday afternoon. The attendance numbered six hundred, a large part of whom were students. The Harvards outbatted the Bostons, while fielding honors were about even. Burdock and Morrill led the fielding for the Bostons, the former making a brilliant running catch at second. Coolidge and Le Moyne led the fielding for the Harvards...
...advocates its claims. . . . The slang of the Parisian student is a study. When he wishes to say that he has made a 'spurt,' or a 'rush,' or a 'flunk,' he calls upon words that would assuredly be distracting to the classic Corneille, were that old gentleman here to catch them. To the student, the Boulevard Saint Michel is the Boul Mich; his 'den' is his boite. . . . The Parisian students do not, to any great extent, indulge in rowing, athletics or gymnastics. Fencing is the exercise that seems to be most in vogue, while boxing has also made some headway among...
...made the driver of the car turn around and go back to Cambridge on the same track he went in on. Stirring times then. We don't have any of them now. The fellows have toned down of late years. We don't have anything to do now except catch a freshman now and then for hooking a barber's sign, or something of that sort. Then they are so babyish about it there ain't any fun in it. They try to get out of it in some way or other. I tell you when the fellows got caught...
...inveterate punster soon comes to regard words as mere symbols on which he is to strike the tinkling changes of his word-music; he takes all the beauty out of Homer's "winged words" by making them shuttlecocks which he is to bandy back and forth at the mere catch of sounds...