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...Blacks proceeded to the bombardment. Laying down a smoke screen, the Black fleet battered the land batteries with its fourteen-inch guns from a range of 30,000 yards-5,000 yards beyond the range of the forts. Then, drawing closer, it destroyed the Miraflores locks with its longest range guns, while 82 fourteen-inch guns concentrated on the forts. The destruction was complete. The Canal lay useless...
...four eights were out on the water for three-quarters of an hour, the longest practice on the harbor so far this season. This marks the beginning of more strenuous training for the University squad, as it is probable that from now on the coaches will begin to groom their charges in the finer points, combining this with longer daily work-outs...
...Lindsay is not crazy. But in the very excited intensity of his sanity there is a sort of madness. His verse shouts and capers in a boisterous exuberance of imagination. He flings images at you-talking flowers, magic roosters " that no storm can tame," amiable mountain cats, comets. The longest and most flaming of all these poems is called So Much the Worse for Boston...
Bolling Robertson '23, a substitute, participated with A. N. Elie of Norwich in the longest bout ever held in Hemenway gymnasium. The pair battled for 51 minutes when at the end of the seventh overtime period Elie was awarded the bout with a time advantage of 38 seconds...
Such an institution is the Pierian Sodality Orchestra, which reached its one hundred and sixteenth year of existence in the University with its annual concert yesterday. Antedating practically all other college organizations, and older by over half a century than the longest-established metropolitan orchestras, it can claim an enviable seniority. Many of its past leaders have won names in the musical world, and from the work of some of its members came the suggestion which prompted Major Higginson to found the Boston Symphony itself...