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...newspaper office has become less the "horned animal" he was in Horace Greeley's day. At least, his horns are now covered with thick rubber, and not until frequent labor at erasing many choice effusions of the brain, have worn that rubber out are the points allowed to show. By that time the animal generally has strength enough to warrant the display...
...faculty who hold to such a belief after having soberly considered the arguments on both sides already brought forward, so utterly alien must be their point of view to that of the students. We on the one hand regard athletic sports as a regular system, developed after a show growth, in many ways faulty and capable of improvement, but certainly not to be remedied by a return to the idyllic and primeval ideal set forth by the crusaders. As a system, those sports have many objects, that of school day-recess amusement, not by any means being the only...
...seven. If the rule is adopted, it will of course give a great advantage to pitchers who have good control of the ball, and likewise be detrimental to those who have not. We strongly favor the new rule, however, for the reason that it gives the batsman a fairer show to hit the ball, and will tend to greatly raise the batting averages which were so low last year. It will also make the games more exciting and interesting than those of last year, where in some cases two or three scratch hits were all that were made...
...America from England, in 1744, and settled in Scituate, Mass. His branch of the family removed to Dover, where he was born July 12, 1783. In 1806 he married Rebecca Allison of Keene, N. H., and lived with her until his death, March 10, 1828. The following table will show my father's family...
...married to Elizabeth N. Chase, having by her one son. She died in 1849, and in 1852 my father was again married to Clara F. Weston, of Louisville, Ky., daughter of Hon. Charles L. Weston, then mayor of the city. The following table will show my family...