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...suit of clothes that attracted more attention on Tremont street than he expected, but he had a fair allowance of brains under his hat, and a pair of shears in the hands of a barber and a tailor of my acquaintance was all that was necessary to put him on an equal footing with most of his Boston contemporaries. And I must say that I felt rather proud of Butterfield as we strolled about town, and rather envied him his innocence, freshness and strength. For, in the first place, he had all the pleasures of the table to enjoy...
...said he had often been in the unpleasant predicament where it was necessary to accompany a woman to some place of amusement with another man, and he had experienced great difficulty in arranging the manner of sitting together. "If you put the woman in first," said he, "and let the other fellow sit between you she does not like it." I wondered why, but said nothing. "And if you put the woman in the middle," he continued, "it bothers her to keep up the conversation; she is obliged to do all the 'running,' because if you talk...
...plain to all who witnessed the game of lacrosse with the University of New York last Saturday that if our men had put forth their full strength at the beginning they would easily have scored. But by the delay the New York men had time to estimate our strength and quickly decided on a "block-game," by which they gave up hope of winning but succeeded in repulsing our most vigorous assaults...
...Morgan, Columbia, secretary; E. T. Cabot, Harvard, and E. P. Morgan, Princeton. The principal subject the convention considered was doing away with the "block game." The following amendments to the rules were adopted : To Rule 5 - "No player having received the ball from one of his own side shall put it in his own touch-in-goal, under penalty of a safety touch." To Rule 7 add - "No sticky or greasy substance can be used on the person of the players" Rule 18 - "A player may throw or pass a ball in any direction except towards his opponents' goal...
...strong northwesterly wind prevailed yesterday forenoon, the junior crew made the attempt to go over the course on time. They started a few minutes after eleven, and despite the fact that each wave washed considerable water into the boat, they pushed on. As it afterward proved, the neglect to put on the washboards proved fatal. When nearly 150 yards from the Union boat-house, the forward part of the boat was so full of water that something had to be done to relieve the heavy strain. Perceiving, with the true instinct of heroes, the imminent danger to the boat...