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...heard of one man who marched in Monday's procession, getting 52 handkerchiefs or "wipes" as they are euphoniously called. This does not beat the record, which is 63. Others, are yet to be heard from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/5/1884 | See Source »

...biggest beats on record in foot ball are the following : Princeton, 140, to Latayette, 0; Yale, 115, to Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/4/1884 | See Source »

Princeton defeated Lafayette College at foot ball on Wednesday by a score of 140 to 0. This is the largest score on record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/4/1884 | See Source »

...case has been reported to us of a man, who, four years ago in the parade, secured fifty-seven handkerchiefs from fair hands along the route. We wonder if that record was broken last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/4/1884 | See Source »

...some of these features, but, however changed, they still remain the only essential con-comitants of the parade. The custom of parading was started in 1868-the campaign of Grant and Seymour. The college, as in all subsequent processions, went with the Republicans. Unfortunately for the antiquarian, however, the record of this procession is very incomplete. The reporter for the college paper was seized with a mental prostration while marching, and was unable afterwards to give a good account either of himself or of the procession. Notes taken by him on the march were all he could produce. We give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Torchlight Processions of the Past. | 11/3/1884 | See Source »