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...love affair of David Copperfield's, when Miss Shepherd, whom the Misses Nettingall outrageously stood in the stocks for turning in her toes, Miss Shepherd to whom as a token of affection he gave twelve Brazil nuts, "difficult to pack into a parcel of any regular shape; hard to crack even in room doors... and oily when cracked," was mistress of his heart. "At home, in my own room," David writes, "I am sometimes moved to cry out, 'Oh, Miss Shepherd!' in a transport of love." "Oh" isn't definite, but it may be very expressive. Is it some such...
Although at first, we paid little heed to the proposition, all our practice games being taken until late in the spring, a letter was read at a recent meeting of the Athletic Committee from one of the Crack Canadian Teams with which we were going to play our first game. It seems that they were such cracks that they had a split in the team, and are therefore obliged to cancel the game. In order not to disappoint the immense crowd who has already bought his ticket, and to spare us the bother of cancelling a tremendous order with...
...University race was rowed upstream from the railroad bridge to the finish line opposite the Harvard quarters at Red Top, and was started promptly a few minutes after 6 o'clock. By her method of taking shorter strokes in starting Yale gained a slight advantage at the crack of the starting gun, showing 19 strokes in the first half minute to Harvard's 18. But this slight lead was soon cut down and before a quarter of a mile had been rowed Harvard took the lead and settled down to a steady pace of 33, a stroke which was maintained...
...Crack it up as you will...
...break in the CRIMSON'S long line of annual victories will be possible, as the CRIMSON'S captain said in an interview late last night: "We have never had a better nucleus for a team than we have in Foster, our crack twirler, and we should double the score of 28 to 7 made last year." Several umpires have been engaged, but it has not yet been decided in what order they will be used...