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...skeletons disclosed were those of 11 men, one woman and four children. Five were in a good state of preservation, the others in various stages of decay. In one grave the bones were so nearly gone as to preserve only the outline in coarse ashes. In another the skull alone remained, in the jaws of which were the well polished teeth. The skeletons were those of men averaging 5 feet 2 inches in height, the tallest being 6 feet 2 inches. The burials were from three to five feet below the surface. The skeletons rested upon hard clay. Around them...
Poole, catcher of the Yale nine was hit just over the temple by a pitched ball while practicing last Saturday afternoon, and very seriously injured. It is feared that his skull is fractured...
...position on the magazine is, in most cases, paramount to an election to one of the senior secret societies, and the position of chairman of the board, which will probably be held this year by Albert Lee, to an election to the "Skull and Bones...
...preparations were made by the undergraduates, especially by the senior societies, to tear down the fence, and to carry off parts of it as souvenirs. One night, shortly after the Harvard-Yale freshman game at New Haven, some members of the Scroll and Keys society, having heard that the Skull and Bones intended to carry away the choicest sections of the fence on the corner of Chapel and College streets, got ahead of the Bones and carried that portion of the fence off to their society building. On the following day "Bones" took its share of the fence...
...were unearthed, of which five were in one group. The five were apparently a warrior, his squaw and three papooses. Near by there was found a portion of an earthen vessel and a roll of copper. The solitary skeleton was about six feet from the group. Under the skull was a number of beads and wampum strings. The skeletons were not more than twelve or fourteen inches under ground. Nearly all were lying on the right side, with knees drawn up to the chin, and facing the east. The soil in which they lay was of a sandy character...