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...Byron. All the parts are open and a vigorous competition is anticipated. There is also a movement on foot to get up a minstrel entertainment. There is good material in college for such an undertaking; the scheme has been suggested in the past but always fell through for lack of a leading man to rush it to completion...
...foot-ball captaincy this year fell to the fortune of '89. W. J. Cook, '89, was elected. While the choice in some ways is eminently a good one, it caused considerable dissatisfaction in the junior class, and that too among the representatives of the class on the team. They claim that the election was contrary to precedent, and as they have the back-bone of the coming team in their class, and among them many competent to captain the team, there was no call for the slight given to the class. The '88 representatives on the team, have signified their...
...SECOND FALL. - Members of the course Phil. - will recall one of the illustrations used concerning an apple orchard of heroic times, the keeper of which Adam, fell from grace because of one of the apples. Yesterday on account of the juice of similar apples, another Adam had received another fall. The Cambridge vote of yesterday was the cause of the Schute...
...city of New York men were uniformly light, and McElven, the anchor, the smallest and slightest of the four. The Columbia men were middle-weight. At the sound of the pistol, Both teams fell like lead to the floor, with Columbia slightly in the advantage. For an instant the red ribbon at the middle of the rope failed to budge, and then it just peered out of the snap on the Columbia side. At the end of the first minute Columbia had just about half an inch, and, although the City of New York's boys pulled sturdily, and their...
...northern railroad lines witnessed a land-slide across the railroad track shortly before the time of an express train. It was in the evening. The man could not reach a telegraph station, and lighting a lantern, he started up the track to stop the train. But he fell, as he heard the train approaching, and broke his lantern, extinguishing the light. With no match his only resource was to stand by the track and as the train thundered past, cast the broken lantern into the locomotive caboose and cry "hold her!" The engineer heard the cry and stopped the engine...