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Dates: during 1870-1879
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DIGGER sat grinding away in his room one night just before the Annuals. It was very late, but Digger's examinations came all in the first few days; and so he worked away, thinking remorsefully of his nights at the theatre and of his numerous "cuts." He was looking up the questions on old examination papers, and as he took up a Political Economy paper his head swam dizzily round, and he could hardly make out a question. "On what does the price of college rooms depend?" was the first that...
...Rubens?" was the first question. "I can surely make a rush on that," soliloquized Digger. "Rubens was a Flemish painter, - his other name is not known, - and he was famous for his masterpiece, the 'Rape of the Sardines...
Because he had cut all the first of the year...
...Boston, The Advertiser office; New Haven, Gulliver's; New London, the Crocker House; Cambridge, Sever's. Applications by mail will be attended to at the Crocker House only. A second bulletin will be issued June 23, and a third on the morning of the race. Copies of the first bulletin will probably be at Sever's on Monday morning...
...elapsed before the Harvard representative pulled up from O'Leary's boat-house and took his position at the start. Livingstone had the choice of positions, and took the east shore, which gave him little or no advantage. At 5.18 P.M. the men were started. Livingstone took the water first, and with a short, quick, but powerful stroke shot ahead of his competitor. Goddard bent to his work at the rate of 34 long, clean strokes to the minute, and at the end of the first hundred yards was on even terms with Livingstone, who had been pulling 36. Opposite...