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...Providence nine started its attack in the fifth when Sargent led off with a single and was sacrificed around the bags. But the hitting spree came in the sixth when two singles and a triple noted two runs. Patterson tied the score in the seventh when he singled, stole his way to third, and raced safely home on a wild pitch by Brown, thus tying the score...
Sixteen different men were used by Coach Young during the game, the frequent changes resulting in bad infield work with six errors. Cordingly, Toulmin, Spalding, Hammond, and Gibb were used in succession on the mound before the third out in the ninth ended the schoolboy hitting spree...
...Polar's Recess" is one of the very ancient and revered customs at Princeton. It dates back many scores of years to the days when it was called the "Horn Spree" and when gun powder was used with less freedom than it is now. But the tradition dictates that there shall be a suspension of hostilities on Sunday evening. It is enough to disturbe the calm of the night on week days--Polar's Recess is out of order on Sunday night, and we hope that undergraduates will observe the custom to the extent of limiting their Sunday demonstration...
...name of the above-mentioned society is Temperance. The object of the Women's Christian Temperance Union is to make others practice this virtue; but there is a proverb called "practice what you preach." The Women's Christian Temperance Union seems to have started on a prohibiting spree; and it might be better for itself and the world in general if it applied the practice of Temperance to its own activities...
...college man does not drink. He gets drunk. The occasions of his getting drunk are varied and sporadic. A football victory, a visit to the metropolis, a check from home, the end of the examinations, a large party, a small party, may serve as the whywithal of a "spree." The aftermath consists largely in telling how much he drank, remembering with a triplicated record the sum of beverages which come his way. If a college man had no one to drink with, if he had no one to tell about it afterwards, he would be as abstinent as a sailor...