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...Emma, mother of Edward the Confessor, walked barefooted and unharmed over nine red hot ploughshares to prove that she had not committed adultery with the holy Alwyn, Bishop of Winchester. Women suspected of being witches were stripped naked and "cross bound" (the right thumb being tied to the left toe, and the left thumb to the right toe), whereupon they were thrown into water, and sank if innocent. British humanitarian, Archbishop Hincmar, dates from the ninth century the notable reform of a rope whereby sunken innocents were sometimes dragged out before they drowned...
Eighty men on the University track squad will be present tonight at the Knights of Columbus track meet to open the longest winter season that has ever been scheduled for the University. The runners will toe the line at 7.15 o'clock tonight in Mechanics Hall A check-up of the number of men entered in the event shows that at least 379 have filed banks to compete. J. L. Reid '29 will run in the feature mile race for the Curley Trophy against Lloyd Hahn of the Boston Athletic Association who is the leading middle distance runner in America...
Freshmen in Berkeley Oval yesterday leaned far out of crowded windows, watched with interest Latin Instructor G. M. Harper boot a football with classic toe, followed its course with eager eyes, saw the ball land amid flying glass upon an electric light globe, noted the miscreant flee before the arrival of a campus...
...yard field goal from the toe of V.P. Kennard '09 that halted the Yale advance and brought Haughton and his team into their place in the sun. When Yale came to the Stadium in 1908, Harvard had not won since 1901, and had tallied only four conquests since the opening of the series...
...farmers feel that the banking and industrial interests have prejudiced the leaders of the country, even the President of the United States against any relief for farmers." Peppery, he stormed and fretted; quit shortly, "sore" (said one Southern delegate) "as a hound dog with a briar in his toe...