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Pennsylvania is counting on its heavy hitting and strong hurling corps to pull them through to victory. The home nine expects to have little trouble in keeping the light-hitting Crimson outfit from scoring, and is confident that such swatters as Fields and Tremper, in spite of Harvard's recent shut-outs, will be able to drive enough runs across the platter to assure the Quaker lads the first game of the series...
...Cambridge. Hugging the, bank, he called for 31 to the minute. Oxford hit up a game 32 and rowed it nicely if strenuously to stay in the race. Then the watchers on the shore saw something happen to Oxford. H. R. A. Edwards, the freshman No. 5, appeared to pull his chin down on his chest turtlewise. His shoulders sagged forward, his oar dragged. In a bit, he was rowing well again, but the race was over. Gliding along four lengths ahead, Cambridge spurted at the end, came within a minute of the record (18 min., 29 sec., established...
...friend sitting by me (Princeton '07) suggests the Harvard Seniors pull off a butter making contest and then you'd have a regular Butter & Egg Men's team and could start for Kansas, etc., etc., to compete with the "Aggles" out there this Summer...
...leave the needle in the child's brain meant eventual death, most probably a horrible death in convulsions. To pull the needle out probably would kill the child. Yet there was the slightest of chances that it would survive the operation. Because it was only five months old, perhaps the brain of its own accord would repair the damage the needle had already done. Perhaps the child would live and grow up normally. But the doctor would not operate without the parents' consent. They consented...
...doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood...