Word: darkly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Never before in the history of intercollegiate track meets have the experts been at such a loss to pick the winners. The reason for this is plain when it is considered that any one of four colleges has an excellent chance, while two others may prove the "dark horses." These six colleges, are California, Harvard, Cornell, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Yale, with the championship likely to fall to one of the latter four...
Football was played very little except on the first Monday night of the college year, called "Bloody Monday Night," when the Freshmen and Sophomores played a game in the twilight and the dark, ending in a grand scrimmage which might perhaps be called a free fight...
...known, to be a speedy pitcher, and McGraw, of the Giants, says there is nobody like him. The captain of the Kappas refused up to a late hour last night to make known his final choice for today's slab artist; but it is rumored that there is a dark horse not mentioned in the line-up. The teams will approach the plate as follows: PHI BETA KAPPA. LAMPOON. Davis, c. 2b., Thayer Harwood, s.s. 3b., Connell McIntosh, p. p., Wentworth Gilday, 1b. s.s., Wainwright Potter, l.f. c., Herter Saxon, 3b. 1b., Kettell Anderson, c.f. r.f., Sanger Kimball...
General Wood bases his plea for these camps on the ground that "military training is as important as training in civic life." This principle was undoubtedly true in the Dark Ages, but it is as unquestionably untrue now, and in fact nowhere more untrue than in the United States of America...
...points out the futility of trying to arrive at general conclusions about Harvard, unless one knows Harvard life thoroughly. In "The Treasure of Carvaernon" (the name in the story itself is spelled Carvaeron), Mr. Walcott gives us a good old-fashioned "Gothic" tale, with secret door, mysterious staircase, damp, dark passage, etc., etc., even to the coincidence which brings the final disaster just at the right moment to catch the characters in the story. Mr. Jackson's "Point of View" is a short, vivid, and fairly amusing sketch of Western life. "Paraffine Percy," by Mr. Douglas, is the one piece...