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...Freshman elevens at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton so far this year, it will be safe to say the University first year men have no easy task ahead of them. Last Saturday these Freshmen only tied Exeter Academy, 7 to 7, the New Hampshire team holding the position of weather-cock this year. The Yale 1921 eleven defeated Exeter 20 to 0, while Princeton scored 12 to the schoolboys 6. Thus Exeter which gave our team a thoroughly hard contest was unable to score on either of our opponents of the next two weeks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STRAW GAME PLAYED. | 11/6/1917 | See Source »

...McElwain, chairman, and Miss Augusta Converse, L. M. Pratt, Jr., and Miss Elsie Dow, R. K. Osborne and Miss Martha S. Warren, A. Putnam and Miss Cock, W. S. Crocker and Miss Sarah Sherborne, C. G. Parker and Miss Augusta Prescott, H. Gage, Jr., and Miss Helen Crocker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-SIX BOX GROUPS ASSIGNED FOR ANNUAL JUNIOR DANCE | 2/17/1917 | See Source »

...gnomes dance at midnight in the woods, first quietly, then merrily, until the cock crows. Then they are away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: According to the Traveler!! | 12/7/1916 | See Source »

...pound class.--A. A. Cock '18 won from Colley (B.) on decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Wrestlers Defeated, 20 to 6 | 1/24/1916 | See Source »

...writer of the account of the Brown-Harvard game, in today's issue of the CRIMSON, "crows like a well-bred cock" over the fact that the score of the game silences "those Brown men who have so consistently contended that Harvard was doing wrong in keeping the best Crimson players out of the game." It is quite conceivable that the score does not give an accurate idea of the relative merit of the two teams, but that is a futile argument. One admits with good grace that the quietus was put on effectively. It is, however, unfortunate that from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/17/1915 | See Source »

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