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While torch and head-gear fell...
...Messrs. F. Cunningham, L. S., and J. Swift, '79. At the start Swift took the lead and made the quarter in 1.9 1/4 sec., closely followed by Cunningham. During the second quarter the men kept close together until they were a hundred yards from home, when Cunningham slipped and fell, leaving Swift to come in in 2.24 1/4; the time last fall being...
SILENTLY the pale blue flames waved and danced over the surface of the coals, as, sitting late one wintry evening before the fire, I threw aside a volume of the "Demonology," and fell into a revery. On a sudden several taps at the door aroused me, and I remarked, "Come in." That the rapper came in was not to be wondered at (such a thing had happened before); but that he entered directly through the door without opening it certainly authorized some expression of astonishment. I raised my eyebrows and looked more closely at my visitor...
...that instant the man we spoke of came, and was passing between me and the old and nearly forgotten well, and strongly I pressed against him and he fell. A howling gust swept the field, and, folded in the darkness of the Shape, I was hurried through the air." The apparition stopped...
...Monday, at Springfield, the details of the race on the 30th of June were settled. Mr. Howe represented Yale, and Mr. Weld and Mr. Otis, Harvard. According to the agreement entered into last fall, the umpire was chosen by lot from two candidates nominated by the colleges. The lot fell to Professor H. M. Wheeler of Yale. The time of day for the race was then considered. Yale preferred to row in the morning, while Harvard favored the afternoon, as it would be more convenient for spectators. It was finally settled that the time of day should...