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...thought for them when the old doctor comes in sight, trying to steal unseen through some open space. Applause and shouting bring the doctor to a stop. The bright, strong face lights up with a happy smile, the white head bows to the youthful top-knots, and the slight, straight figure, bearing very easily the weight of seventy-five long years, tries to steal away again. But it won't do. The boys must have a speech, and the doctor submits. How he brightens and sparkles! No dry remarks on anatomical subjects, no learned dissertation on medical principles. Only...
...Start out fresh to be able to walk straight...
...name was Whittaker of the Scientific School. Whittaker, strongly guarded by the freshmen, made his appearance at the main entrance, while the sophomores awaited him, with their bowl, at the foot of the steps on the campus. With one powerful rush the freshmen forced their man down the steps, straight through the crowd of sophomores, pass the bowl, over the campus, across the Darby road, and safely housed him in Otto's beer saloon. All this was done in six minutes, the best time on record. Then the crowd rushed back to the campus to fight for the possession...
...Harvard and Moffat of Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from practising their deceptive arts upon the guileless batsmen. It is wrong to give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert his ash into a catapult, by whose means he may kill the pitcher, or anybody else on the field at will, to prove how much of an athlete he has become since...
...following challenge has been sent to the H. U. B. C: To the secretary of H. U. B. C.-The Columbia College Boat Club challenges the Harvard University Boat Club to row a Straight a way race in eight oared shells with coxswains, on the Thames River, at New London; all other conditions to be mutually agreed upon hereafter...