Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Encouraging reports were received last night in regard to the considerable improvement in the condition of Professor R. B. Merriman '96, who was painfully injured while on a duck shooting trip 'n New Hampshire last Sunday. He was reported as resting much more comfortably and showing steady improvement...
...place at a moment when Professor Merriman was moving through a slight depression which concealed him from the View of his hunting companion. It was then that the latter suddenly fired at a bird which had taken wing directly in line with Mr. Merriman. Much of the charge of duck shot entered his head, neck and chest, wounding him severely, particularly in the right eye. In spite of his wounds however, he was able to get himself to the railroad station, and from there to Boston. Since then he has been improving under the care of Dr. David Cheever...
Each member of the delegation is expected to take with him, besides his personal belongings a track, tennis, or baseball outfit, and white duck hat. Men who own banners, musical instruments, or song books are urged to take these also...
...competition with an energetic rival. This should lead to a renascent enthusiasm and activity on the part of the Advocate of which it is now in great need. There is room in the University for two good magazines. There is not room for a swan and a lame duck...
...Tavannes. This road seemed to be a centre of French batteries and consequently at times, for German shells, a distinctly undesirable situation, to say the least. We never took any stock in one of the Frenchmen who said: 'It isn't the shell you can hear you want to duck for, it's the one you can't hear that will cause the trouble.' When one sees Frenchmen of two years' experience dropping and ducking on hearing the whistle of a shell, one has no compunctions at all in following suit...