Word: duck
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Richard Haskins Nichols '17, of Brookline, was found dead of exhaustion and exposure on the marshes in the Barnstable harbor on Tuesday afternoon, December 29. Nichols had gone duck-shooting with two classmates, but left them early Tuesday morning to try for some ducks before luncheon. His continued absence alarmed his companions, who went in search of him about two o'clock, accompanied by an attendant of the hunting shack in which they had been living. The body was found in the bottom of a duck-boat, which was partly filled with water...
...held during the week before the Princeton game-and though a hard fight was expected, there seemed to be no reason to expect anything else than a victory. The weather conditions which proved so disastrous at West Point were not provided against, and the field was a veritable duck-pond. The keepers came in for not a little condemnation for the apparent carelessness in not using the sand, of which there was so much on hand...