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...intended to sit on it every morning, and apply for an excuse from chapel on the ground that he was waiting on a club. Judge of his consternation when he was gravely informed that the faculty never excused a man for merely having been on a bat. - Yale Record...
...apart one day or more in the year in which to express its gratefulness to the "immortal gods" for the gifts of nature. Our Thanksgiving day was probably first suggested by the old Hebrew feast of Tabernacles, celebrated soon after the gathering of the harvests. But the earliest modern record of such a day, observed by official proclamation, is found in Holland under the date of 1575. The Pilgrim fathers, being ever imbued with feelings of thankfulness at their own virtues, no doubt got the idea of the festival during their life among the Dutch...
...American twenty-four hour bicycle record was broken Saturday by Munger of Detroit, who accomplished 259 13-16 miles in the given time...
...Baker now holds the inter-collegiate record in the 220, 440, and half-mile runs, and the American amateur record in the 220 yards...
...successful sophomore crew, provided only the men who tried then will have the courage to come forward now. By this early beginning of work it looks as though it was '88's ambition to follow in the wake of the illustrious sophomore crew which preceded her, and crown the record of their second year in college with a well earned victory over seniors, juniors and freshmen...