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...Dickson, r. e.; and Weeks, q. b, is excellent. Weeks will be in good condition for the game, but Hedges will take Dickson's place. Boyle, who has rejoined the eleven, will play the other end. On Wednesday the men will probably be taken to the Delaware Water Gap or some place in the country where they can be quiet and practice signals in secret...
...humorous. The humor is not insistent, and the reader is flattered by having much left to his intelligence. The same may be said of the narration in the other stories. These are told with a simplicity and directness suggestive of Kipling. This is more especially true of "Through the Gap." The last in the volume, "A Purple Rhododendron," is intensely dramatic and carries the reader by main force up to the crisis. None of the stories are more than a few pages in length, yet each is a distinct and lasting picture...
...Williams then took it up and after passing Grant at the first turn gained steadily on him, finishing fifteen yards to the good. Fish added a few yards to the lead, and Hollister, although he did not have to exert himself, widened the gap still more, ending about thirty yards ahead of Jarvis...
...weeks of river work the launch was in daily use and the two crews, a first and second 'Varsity, rowed side by side under the eye of Mr. Watson. Once the second 'Varsity was given a handicap of some lengths and the 'Varsity attempted to close up the gap in a long stretch." (Three miles...
...numerous than the dollars. But, as this was not the expectation in 1878, the silver certificates were not made legal tender. As they constitute no claim upon the holdings of the government except for silver, the only way they effect the legal tender situation is to fill up a gap, which would otherwise be filled by gold coin...