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...hits. One of these was the merest scratch, and the other was made by the last man in the last inning. The whole team backed up the pitcher in a way that left very little to be desired. Bates fumbled a grounder in the first inning and Dickinson another rather difficult one in the sixth, but with these exceptions the fielding of the team was perfect. Whenever one of Morrill's men got a base he was sure to be thrown out before he came home. Only one man scored, and only one was left. Bates watched the base like...
...surrounding circumstances, and by his contact with other nations. His style was strikingly characteristic, and was at times intensely finished. All his speeches are filled with the socalled Pauline element, which deals with Christ as Saviour of the Jew and the Gentile, the Lord of the spiritual world, rather than a fulfillment...
...work by the interference of the "scrub" teams. These latter are generally supposed to be non-representative college organizations; and they may, therefore, leave town without express permission. It is natural enough that men on the class nines should some times prefer to play these out-of-town games rather than to practice with their class nines. The result, however, is disastous to the class nines, whose administration is, of necessity, hardly strict enough summarily to dispense with the services of such...
...less ambitious sketches, entitled "Pattes des Mouches," and "The Expected Hour," together with the "College Kodaks," complete the number. "The Expected Hour" is a rather vivid anaiysis of the sensations of a modern novelist, who has all his life wondered how it would feel to die, and who can hardly do himself justice when the hour at length arrives. We are curious to see more from the same...
...College Kodaks" have only a remote connection with college subjects, and this fact seems rather to their advantage. On the whole they are decidedly better than usual. They show a certain feminine delicacy of touch, which we are rather surprised to find in the masculine student of English 12. "Poor Henry" seems to us a study quite beyond the ordinary routine work of daily themes...