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...prepare for the fray. At the east end stood a couple of sophs gazing fondly upon their thirty-dollar darling, which was a striking illustration of the beautiful and useful combined in one, needing only the bowl-man held in its gentle embrace, after the manner of the acorn, to make the picture complete; at the other end stood the freshmen, in weighty council of war; now they come on with a rush and a shout. Out through the door the mass is squeezed, like a bed-sheet through a clothes-wringer, and down the campus they slide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Annual Bowl Fight at the University of Pennsylvania. | 2/11/1888 | See Source »

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