Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...fast and aggressive game. On the offense the forwards showed great improvement in team play and frequently carried the puck the length of the ice and through the second team's defense. For the first time in practice this season, the men followed back quickly after losing the duck...
...should be spoiled by lack of clearness; less length and an explanation of some strange conversations and unaccountable actions would save it from being classed with the other stories of the issue. "Senor Costa's Diplomacy" and "Henderson" suffer equally from want of originality and poor narration. "The Wild Duck" partakes of these characteristics and the added fault of being "poetry...
...stories in the present number are hardly as good as those in the last. "Duck-Shooting," a sketch by F. R. Dickinson, is an attempt at word painting. The plot of "A Stranger in a Strange House" by Roy Pier, is a familiar one and the writing seems rather mechanical in places. G. S. Franklin's story, "Was it an Hallucination?" is told in a convincing way and moves steadily from beginning to end. The best piece in the number is "Hank Peters' Code," by F. R. DuBois. Aside from being a clever character study, it shows a thorough knowledge...
...Randall Hall provisions are used daily in the following quantities: 360 pounds of beef, 250 pounds of veal or lamb, 225 pounds of chicken, 75 pounds of duck, 65 pounds of chops, 50 pounds of butter, 100 gallons of milk, seven bushels of potatoes, 90 pounds of ham, 80 pounds of sausages, 370 pounds of fish, two barrels of flour, 50 pounds of cereals, four barrels of general vegetables, 13 gallons of ice cream, 85 dozen eggs, and 35 gallons of pudding. Two tons of coal are used each day for cooking. The total cost of providing food...