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...team goes to Worcester with a clean slate, while the Academy team has been scored on by Andover and defeated by Dartmouth 1916. The Worcester eleven has, however, a heavy line and a brilliant backfield with a versatile attack. Their forward passing, responsible for the Andover tie score, is particularly to be guarded against...
...arrived the entire wing was blazing. The occupants of the rooms made their escape with little difficulty, but with no time to save anything. Within less than two hours the third and fourth floors were entirely gutted. The walls separating the rooms were burned away, and in places the slate roof had fallen in. The rooms on the first and second floors were only slightly injured by the fire, which skipped from the room in which it started to the third floor. The contents of these rooms, however, were almost totally destroyed by water. The firemen were greatly hampered...
...affords little basis for comparison as all their points were made by field goals. However, these same goals score points and when a team becomes as remarkably proficient in this respect as Carlisle, with two brilliant kickers in the line-up, the only safe way to preserve a clean slate is to keep them on their own side of the field and this has proved a stiff proposition in their games thus far. It should be one of the most spectacular games of the year...
...Museum has purchased also, with the vessels, a collection of arrow heads, axes, ceremonial instruments and ornaments. Most of these are made of flint or slate, and were evidently fashioned with extreme care...
...tons a day. It will not be necessary to use it for more than a week, running six hours a day, but even so the amount of ore required will be considerable. It is probable that stone from local sources, containing pyrites, will be used, and mixed with broken slate, or the crushed stone employed in road building. The expense of transportation is likely to preclude the reduction of commercial gold ore, though it would be more satisfactory for purposes of instruction...