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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...played but one regular game this season, it is difficult to make a trustworthy comparison between it and the Freshman eleven. Though the practice games against the substitutes were at first very loose and the interference slow and ragged, the team work has improved very much of late. The eleven has been greatly weakened by the loss of the ends, Beardsell and Clarke, who will be unable to play on account of injuries received in practice, and the loss of Gray and Livermore who are playing with the second 'Varsity. For a class eleven, the line is very light...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/30/1897 | See Source »

...eleven has not played any regular games this fall so that it is difficult to gauge its real strength with any exactness. The practice has consisted almost entirely of signal practice and scrub games against the substitutes and other class teams. The line is fairly heavy for a class team and the men are good individually, but they do not play well together. The backs are heavy but slow in starting, and the interference is not as compact as it should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/29/1897 | See Source »

...interest you to know that Newman the Shoeman is a practical shoemaker, takes all measures himself and superintends the making of all custom orders and guarantees the best fitting, best style and best wearing shoes that can be made. The most difficult feet are made to look stylish as well as comfortable. My English last cannot be found elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 10/29/1897 | See Source »

...Sartain," by John Fox, Jr., (Harper and Brothers), is a collection of short stories of the Kentucky mountains which have appeard from time to time in the magazines. Many of them are in dialect, but the intending reader need not be alarmed, for the dialect is not at all difficult to read and is extremely interesting owing to its unique character...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Book Review. | 10/28/1897 | See Source »

...interest you to know that Newman the Shoeman is a practical shoemaker, takes all measures himself and superintends the making of all custom orders and guarantees the best fitting, best style and best wearing shoes that can be made. The most difficult feet are made to look stylish as well as comfortable. My English last cannot be found elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notice. | 10/27/1897 | See Source »

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