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MERTHY NOUGAT.P. S. One of the girls has just read this over, and she said that I had better tell you not to let it drop on anything because it is so heavy it might break something. I don't see what she means, for I wrote it on very light paper...
...Savoy Theatre, in London, is said to have the prettiest drop-curtain of any theatre in the world. It is of white satin, elaborately quilted by hand, and cost...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Every spring the freshman nine is a subject of much discussion in the college papers. Last year, it was proposed to drop the annual series with Yale. As unpleasant as it would be for us to acknowledge, by such an action, that it is impossible for Harvard freshmen to defeat the Yale freshmen, the feeling is getting stronger each year that this will have to be done if some change is not made in the general management. Many of the points in which Yale has the advantage over our freshmen were mentioned by your correspondent...
...sure Mr. Butterfield, senior, had sandy hair and a sandy beard, and was long and thin, what his neighbors called "rather a spare man;" I had also decided that he had large hands and feet, and wore spectacles and storeclothes; that he was bigotedly honest and never touched a drop of anything...
...Mott Haven rules, and at the end of that time the team, which has the ribbon on its side, is declared the winner. It is plain that the great strength of the team lies in its power of endurance, and the regularity with which the members heave and drop together. The position of anchor requires a great deal of tact and skill, especially in taking up the rope as the team comes up after a pull. An anchor may also materially help his team by practising various artifices to deceive the other team, as apparently rising and taking...