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Some fellows in Providence, R. I.; at present enrolled in a college they have down there called Brown, were reported last night as having broken the peace, a lot of furniture, and the hearts of their loving teachers. They threw bottles into the street, chairs, divans; and undoubtedly advantage was taken of the occasion to dispose of a number of radios, vitrolas, and saxophones. The police, having at last found someone whom they dared to prosecute, were highly incensed, and allowed that it was high time somebody did something about the deplorable spirit of lawlessness among college students. The deans...
...Woodley," his Washington home, Statesman Stimson was waiting on the second floor for dinner to be announced when he saw a shadowy form at the window, heard footsteps on the porch roof. Cricket, his Scotch terrier, jumped up, growled a warning. Secretary Stimson threw open the window, rushed downstairs, outdoors, saw somebody sliding down a porch pillar, running away into the night...
Quarterback Newman of Michigan saw Captain Simrall far down the field and threw the ball to him. The second touchdown was unnecessary. Michigan 13, Ohio State...
...royal stomach for some time. So honored was the mountaineer by the visit, so solicitous was he for his Emperor's health that he set out an unusually large dish of his best seaweed jelly. When the meal was over the humble man, in deference to deity, threw away what the Son of Heaven could not eat. When the Emperor departed next morning, the mountaineer, thrifty, went after his lost delicacy. It had been frostbitten during the night. As the morning sun warmed it, the jelly disintegrated. Water separated from it into a little pool leaving behind a light...
...York Central R. R. threw a solid bridge across the Croton where it empties into the Hudson. Surviving Van Cortlandts now complain that this bridge blocks boats passing up the Croton to their estate. Last spring a judge ruled that the railroad must replace its structure with a drawbridge, but before he could sign his decree he died. Therefore last fortnight Mrs. Isabel R. Mason and the Misses Catherine Van Cortlandt Mathews and Anne S. Van Cortlandt, now occupants of the family manor house, appeared in the White Plains Supreme Court to recommence their suit against the railroad. Clad...