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After a month spent along the Wandorobo, Coolidge was joined by Colby, and they started for Mt. Suswa to shoot lions. One night after the latter had obtained several fine specimens, a stockade was built and a dead antelope placed nearby as a decoy. On this carcass Coolidge arranged a camera with a string attached to the shutter and then waited inside the stockade. He had taken two splendid flashlight pictures of lionesses and was rearranging the camera when a large lion charged him. He ran and dove through the door of the enclosure. Next morning the lion's tracks...
...several narrow escapes form infuriated elephants and rhinos, once stopping a charging elephant only ten feet off. Buffaloes, also, were very dangerous. Lion hunting, though Colby said, is the finest sport of all, for the hunter is pitted against another trained hunter who knows much more about it than he does. Lions are crafty, and often seem cowardly, for they know that their charge is dangerous only within 40 yards. Once started, however, nothing but instant death can stop them...
FRENCH. Gretry, 1741-1813--Air, from Richard Coeur de Lion. D'Exaudet, 1710-1779--Minuet. Faure, 1845--Au bord, Nell, Rose d'Ispham. Debassey, 1862--La belle au bois...
...November. The mason-work of the fence, which extends from the Fogg Museum along Broadway to Robinson Hall, is now finished, but the iron-work will not be put in until the masonry of the gateway is built. Between the openings a drinking fountain in the form of a lion's head over a stone basin will be built. With the exception of this fountain, there will be no carving or elaborate decoration...
...Hughes; B. A.Miller '04, "Idols," Phillips, W. H. Nelson '04, Section from "Speech on the Philippines," Jhoar; F. h. Osgood '04, "The Charge against Verres," Cicero; T. Perry '03, "Characteristics of Washington," Mckinley; E. M. Rabenold '04, "The New South," H. W. Grady; T. D. Roberts '03, "Coeur de Lion at the Bier of his Father;" C. C. Scheffy '03, "Inaugural Address," Arthur; L. E. Swarts '03, "The Republic Never Retreats," A. J. Beveridge; S. Thurman '03, "Defense of Dreyfus," Zola; V. A. Tsanoff '04, "Ireland's Part in English Achievement," R. Shell; S. A. Welldon 'o4, "Henry Esmond...