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Then said the young gentleman, "Gen. Butler will bestride his wonderful horse, and will canter over Cambridge bridge. You will have given him the knightly accolate, and the college will have a new honor in this last and most glorious doctor of laws...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/15/1882 | See Source »

...class condition, and render the time made at the Spring and Fall Meetings creditable to themselves and to the College. As matters now stand, one or two men are regarded as invincible, simply because they train somewhat, and have speed enough to beat their utterly untrained opponents in a canter. By handicapping these men the chances would be equalized, and others induced to train really hard, while the invincible few would have to work all the harder; thus speed, time, and men would all improve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...Spectator is goody, painfully so. Its philippics against the intoxicating cup are truly Swinburne-like. The Pegasus of the far North is evidently a teetotaller, - possibly his didactic flights and broken-winded canter might go far towards proving him a jackass. One of his most graceful curvets is recorded below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/4/1874 | See Source »

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