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...Grant is to receive his callers and presents. The latest despatch comes from New York, saying that O'Beery has offered to give away a debt of $2,000, incurred at the last walking-match, to any man who can smooth off the blocks of Boylston in 365 consecutive days. Two men have entered, the Chinese professor and Connors. As there are 1,365 blocks altogether in Boylston, and as two men can clip two and one-eighth stones in one day 25 hours and 76 minutes, one will see at a glance that men who are now betting...
...stable, stately solidity of Boylston's Bleak Blocks is fast being changed, but into what no one has yet found out, though the surmises are many. Some think that the men who are hammering away day by day at the walls are men who take field work in geology, in search of specimens. Others say that a new mining company has been organized, called the Boylston Bonanza, and that there are millions in those stones...
...Nine play in Worcester on Fast Day...
...second day (Ladies' Day) of the H. A. A.'s Winter Meeting took place on Saturday last in the Hemenway Gymnasium, and attracted a large number of spectators, many ladies being among them. The sports opened with the first bout of the fencing, which was won by D. Leavitt, S.S., over W. O. Underwood, '84, with a score of 9 points to 8. Next came the first bout of the light-weight sparring, between G. H. Heilbron, '83, and W. H. Page, '83. Page was evidently suffering from nervousness, and appeared completely dazed all through the bout, which was awarded...
...enjoyment of the meeting. Most of this unpleasantness might, we believe, have been avoided by a better knowledge, on the part of all present, of what was and what was not fair. Above all, such trouble as this should in the future be guarded against, especially on Ladies' Day...