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...other respects the Harvard team was tried and found wanting. A general condemnation of the eleven would be as unjust as it is unwarranted, but to say that the team as a whole came up to reasonable expectations would be to wander far from the truth. It required the spur of an opponent's touchdown to a waken the team to a fraction of its potential strength, and to bring victory out of defeat. Even then Harvard was twice held for downs within a few feet of the goal line...
...Miles in a Yacht", R. Arthur; Disraeli's Works, 20 volumes; "The Debtor", M. E. W. Freeman; Goethe's Samtliche Werke, 14 volumes; "The Story of Brussels", E. Gilliat-Smith; "The Law Breakers", R. Grant '73; Hebbel's Samtliche Werke, 12 volumes; Keller's Samtliche Werke, 10 volumes; "The Spur", G. B. Lancaster; "Sir Walter Scott", A. Lang; "A Memoir of Jane Austin", J. E. A. Leigh; "Red Saunders' Pets", H. W. Phillips; "Evolution, the Master-Key", C. W. Saleeby; "The Struggle for Self-Government", L. Steffens; Storm's Sammtliche Werke, 8 volumes; "Fenwick's Career", Mrs. Humphrey Ward...
...Mott will preside, and the speakers will include Rev. G. A. J. Ross, of Cambridge, England, Rev. C. C. Hall, D.D., of the Union Theological Seminary, Mr. R. C. Spur, of New York City, and Rev. A. P. Stokes, Jr., Secretary of Yale University...
...some length the celebrated cases of the prisoner of St. Pierre, Martinique, and the overseer and men of the sugar refinery at Orange Hill. The prisoner was in a heavily constructed masonry cell having two small openings for air, and this cell was protected by the brow of a spur of cliffs. The man was burned somewhat by hot dust but was otherwise unhurt. In the case of the men at Orange Hill, they were in a large cellar which was absolutely closed. The explosive blast which followed the ignition of gases by lightning killed every one where there...
...Post Office address. It is especially well adapted for topographic work of any kind and for hydrographic survey. The area is about 1 1-2 miles of lake front on the farm. The lake itself, about eight miles in length by two in width, is situated in a spur of the White Mountains, and contains a large number of islands...