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Princeton students at Harvard will be sorry to learn of the sudden death of John Amberg, commonly known as "Jack the Cop," a well-known campus figure as well as an efficient member of the police force...
...young barbarians;" and "that those men who did not drink were looked upon with something like suspicion." These are only a few sentences from Mr. Stearns's first installment, but they indicate its tenor. He boasts of having been helped to his room in Weld by the Yard cop three times to his memory, leaving us to guess how many times he did not remember it, while "the elms went up like rockets to the stars." By his own standards he would thereby be removed from any sort of suspicion. But we, nevertheless, suspect that he is not a typical...
That today's game will be stupid and uninteresting goes without saying. Against Rube Phillips, of Middletown Springs, and Three-Fingered Bennett, (Manager Henderson is not now sure which he will start), the scoop-chasers will be fortunate to cop a single bingle, while the entire staff of candidates' slab artists will be unable to stop the sangerfest of batting editors. Aside from the tremendous mental and physical gap separating editors from the lowly candidates, any extra base hits will be counted heavily against the latter, and scoop credit will be given them for all errors. Thus we feel that...
...there is one thing I hate more than another, - I say thing, as the word seems most appropriate, - it is a blue-coat, a peeler, a cop. I know not by what name that noble enforcer of the laws, that preserver of the country's peace, is best known to you; but never mind its name, perhaps it has none, the label may have dropped off. I was never well acquainted with these queer specimens until I came to college, but there I found the true article, the Cambridgeport peeler; this very fascinating individual interrupted, one Sunday afternoon, a quiet...
...said I was a cop...