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...centre-board. The cruising canx is a craft in which a man can sail or paddle in rough or smooth, deep or shallow water; in which he can travel by day and sleep at night, and which in case of necessity he can take under his arm, and drag around an impossible rapid, or over a portage from one stream to another. No other craft permits its owner these priceless privileges, and hence the canx, having made that possible which was before impossible, is an invention of incalculable value to the lover of nature and of open-air sports...
...horns. You take one horn when you say the college must have more grounds. For eighteen men to play base ball a field of three or four acres is necessary. To make the game a general recreation for students at large would require all the unoceeupied land for miles around. President Eliot took the other horn of the dilemmanamely, that base ball should be supplanted by some game which requires less territory. Such a game is lawn tennis. The Jarvis base ball grounds, if laid out in double courts would furnish tennins grounds for over one hundred players...
...these shaggy-headed sprites wending his way about the college. But with the white blossoms of spring and the first baseball game he somes in all his glory. To be sure some few symptoms of him can be seen generally before this time, in the shape of wild blasphemies around sundry games of marbles in a corner of the yard, but it is not until the spring fairly opens that he is here in force. Then he seems to come all at once with a whoop and a yell. Whence he comes, and whither he goes, no man can tell...
...advantage till dark and then pressed his army forward for a renewed attack on the 16th. Hood had gathered his forces into a still stronger position during the night and awaited another attack behind substantial breastworks. By noon Thomas' army was again in position, and the cavalry had moved around and captured one of the two lines for Hood's retreat. Thomas now planned a flanking movement similar to that of the day previous by which he would gradually cut off the other turnpike road in the Confederate rear. This would compel the army of Hood to surrender en masse...
...Memorial Hall waiters have organized a nine, and would like to hear from similar organizations around Boston...