Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Heading the editorials is a bit of touchingly sincere self-congratulation on the part of the outgoing board, pardonable, perhaps, under the circumstances. As a handy compendium of high school valedictories. "Another Fledgling Leaves the Nest" is without equal. The closing lines could not but touch the heart of the most cynical, nor is the wealth of advice contained in them less astounding when one considers that such profound knowledge of the world comes from an under-classman...
...Wells Cup in 49 3-5 seconds. On the turn in this race, A. Biddle '16 fell after a mix-up with H. W. Minot '17 and W. J. Bingham '16 jumped the first but tumbled over the second of the two. Biddle lost a good bit of skin and was spiked, though not seriously. Bingham also was scraped somewhat. Their tumbles should not affect the running of these men in the intercollegiates next week...
...second baseball team was defeated by Phillips-Andover Academy at Andover last Saturday afternoon, by the score of 5 to 2. Wilson, Andover's pitcher, although inclined to be a bit wild at times, pitched very effective ball, holding his opponents to five hits and striking out 10 men. Andover's stick-work totalled 13 hits...
...Employment Office hopes to furnish as many men with summer work as usual, there has at the present time come to its notice very few openings. It is to be hoped that this condition of affairs will be remedied as it undoubtedly will be when the season is a bit more advanced. There are at present opportunities for men who wish to put in the summer months as canvassers for various firms, but this nearly completes the list of definite opportunities on hand. GORDON WARE '08, Secretary, Student Employment...
...Nelson's story is the longest, and perhaps the best written, of the prose specimens, but it is a little bit irritating: it is a kind of Phillips Brooks House "ad," based on the assumption that anything labelled "Service," with a capital "S," is "real" and "vital." Even the conclusion, in which the heroine throws over the Open Hearth rather than lose her life-long lover, leaves a suspicion that perhaps the author retains a conviction that to be a Boy Scout Leader or the Coach of an Uplift Nine is after all the noblest ambition of Young American Manhood...