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...mining camps, fascinated by this feverish life, I chanced to hear of Bodie, "the latest strike," as they called it. Not far from Mono Lake, in the great desert that lies to the east of the Sierra Nevadas, and more than a hundred miles through the sand from the nearest base of supplies, some one had found a rich deposit of gold. At once miners, merchants, gamblers, and all the male and female floating population of the Nevada mining camps made a rush for the spot. In three months arose one of those mushroom mining towns, where every other house...
...almost unknown at these tables. For six years from four hundred to six hundred students have eaten together in this the largest college dining hall in the world, and no disturbance whatever has ever occurred. Indeed, such a thing would be impossible among young men so well bred. The nearest approach to a demonstration that is ever made is when a thoughtless onlooker in the visitors' gallery neglects to take off his hat. The fare is a little monotonous, but it is rich, well cooked and abundant. Students often remark that in Memorial Hall they get seven-dollar board...
...blood-curdling stories will receive applause unless they be of marching tramps five miles to the nearest settlement...
...prize except in the consolation race, being so heavily handicapped as to render it almost an impossibility for him to beat the other contestants. Myers was entered for a 440 yards' run, handicap, and he was the only man who toed the scratch, the competitor that stood nearest to him having a start of 25 yards, and the one furthest from him having a start of 60 yards. There were 11 entries, and when the signal go was given Myers started like a deer, rapidly passing one runner after another. Had the race been a few yards longer he would...
...besides satisfying the needs of the military department, will be supplied with all the appliances necessary to a gymnasium. An addition has also been made to the rooms of the botanical department, together with a conservatory for plants and flowers, which it is said will be when completed the nearest perfect of any similar structure in this country...