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...saluting cannon. The U. S. S. Maryland steamed out; first stop Corinto, Nicaragua. When the Hoovers went to their cabin Mrs. Hoover had to admire the first vanity dresser ever installed on a U. S. warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...
Quietly sank the Vestris, a fortnight ago, some 250 miles east of Hampton Roads, in water two miles deep, beyond hope of recovery. There was no collision, no explosion, no hurricane. She was scuttled, perhaps by negligence...
Buell carried the forward passing game to the limit, and for the first time in the history of Harvard football, the forward pass was used as an offensive weapon deep in Harvard's own territory...
...season of 1874 was destined to leave a deep impression upon American football, for during this year occurred the first Harvard-McGill game, the first contest of intercollegiate Rugby played in this country and the contest which led directly to the present intercollegiate game. The teams met on Jarvis Field, May 14, eleven men participating on each side. Following this year, often termed the most "momentous" of football history, Harvard met on the playing field with McGill and other Canadian universities for a number of years, previous to the first engagement with Yale at the beginning of the last quarter...
Gifford Pinchot, onetime Governor of Pennsylvania, lean and active at 63, purchased, last week, a three-masted schooner on which he will sail in March for the South Sea Islands and the Galapagos, where he will fish, observe and collect deep sea life and works. This, said Mr. Pinchot, will be the fulfillment of a dream he has dreamed since college (Yale) days. Said charming Mrs. Pinchot: ". . . Yes, Gifford should have been a doctor." Mrs. Pinchot expects to go with him on the cruise of dreams...