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While Elsie was being let down, I caught a few words of whispered talk between Travers and the others, from which I inferred that they were still suspicious of Colney, the man who had opposed Elsie's election into the "Company," and so had managed to put him at work in a side drift, leading off about half way down the shaft, which, as no vein of ore had been "struck" there, it was not worth while for us to visit...
...equal, the chances of great success, these maintain, are greater for the graduates, while the chances of great failure are less; and those two facts - which we may remark en passant we believe to he real, especially as regards the second - ought of themselves to outweigh the heavy claims put in for experience in practical life...
...which is fully appreciated by every member of the crew. For the past three years Yale has had a phenomenally heavy and muscular crew. This is the last year in which five of her best men will appear in her boat, and we may be sure that they will put forth a great final effort for victory. To meet this we must not rely altogether on our superiority in style of stroke and in management. Not only must the eight exert themselves to the utmost, but it devolves upon every member of the university to do his best in supporting...
...regard to some of the arrangements, one of which was the manner of starting the boats. This controversy was finally settled by Harvard's giving in at the starting line. This year the acceptance of Yale's challenge, together with the settlement of all minor arrangements, has been put into the hands of the graduate advisory committee...
...nefarious purpose of giving to a properly elected candidate his rights. If the conspirators succeed in this where will they stop? They now number fully four thousand. All they have to do is to fill every office, State and Federal, with members of the society, and to put none but Alpha Delts in command, either in the army or the navy, and they can then seize the supreme power, and compel every man, woman and child to drink lemonade, eat oysters and wear outlandish breast-pins...