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Over the centuries, students have always regarded earnest study with deep displeasure. The deskbound undergraduate has been variously damned as a swot, a brown-bagger or a mug. Chemistry is still stinks, Thucydides is Thicksides, and studying education is doing Eddyoo. To be failed in an examination has traveled from being gravelled (after Marlowe's Faustus, who "gravelled the pastors of the German church") to being gulphed, ftoor&d, knocked out, pilled, pipped, ploughed or plucked...
...first Crimson run came before anyone was out in the bottom of the first as Ralph Robinson knocked in Win Carduff with a single after the stocky second baseman's lead-off two bagger. This knotted the score...
Belmont came back in the fifth, when Leigh Quinn smacked a four-bagger to drive in three men and tie the score at 4-all. The Crimson then took advantage of good base-running and a squeeze play to grab a lead and held...
Only Crimson batters not to be completely puzzled by O'Brien's slants were John Caulfield, who singled twice, and Walt Coulson, who banged a one-bagger and was robbed of another when Eagle first baseman Dick Boyle made a brilliant diving catch of his vicious line drive in the fourth...
Hampered only slightly by the translucent blinders applied by the Watch and Ward Society, Boston now gets its mayhem straight with its cornflakes and cares little about the quality of the news. An uncommonly happy hunting ground for carpet-bagger journalism, the city is now vamped by no less than five newspapers devoting their space to scandals, with the practical exclusion of any other type of news. These papers have a total circulation of 1,900,000 in a city of 2,300,000, leaving little room for news coverage of national and international events. The result of this topic...