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...paying its expenses. But the cost of the two New York trips was large, and on account of the bad weather but very little money was taken at the gate, so that the Team fell considerably behind in finances. The managers are now going among the students, trying to stir them up to a little more enthusiastic support. We cannot urge too strongly upon all the College that we owe a great deal to the Football Team, and that we should not allow it to remain in debt a moment longer. Then, too, in regard to the 'Varsity Crew...
...destruction of the world. But they, forgetting to transpose our system of time to theirs, announced that the end of the world would happen near the end of the 19th century. An old woman who happened to be there carried the news back to earth, where it created some stir at the time...
Look and cannot stir...
Thro' the veil her breath did stir...
...down a long hall, that ever opened before me in an endless vista. At last, far off, white and pale, I saw the figure of a woman coming towards me swiftly, terribly, like a ghost; I, coward enough in my dream, tried to turn away from her. I could stir neither hand nor foot. I pray God I may never again experience that feeling of powerless, supernatural terror. She drew nearer and nearer; and I recognized the face of Bertha Carlin. Then suddenly she stopped, pointed backward; the hall disappeared, the broad sea was before me, gleaming under the moon...