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Along with the efforts of Eph attack men Merriman, Grady, and Maynard, a case of first half jitters seemed to be the undoing of the Crimson. Picking up a loose ball, dodging, or making a simple pass seemed almost insurmountable tasks during the first 30 minutes, and by the time the Varsity recovered its poise, the score had run to Williams, 4 Harvard...
...Eph stickmen were still clinging to their 1 to 0 lead as the third period opened, but before it was two minutes old Ayres had evened the count with his first goal. Willetts was credited with an assist...
...dead kinsman, Cousin Micajah, who loved the girl his brother loved and joined Fremont's expedition to California because "he did not wish to complicate things." In brief and amusing sketches, Stark Young reports his conversations with a good-natured Negro boy, Virgil, writes of old Eph of Texas, whose one idiosyncrasy, even as an old man, was to chase fire engines; of a Texas game warden who told him, during a long discussion of crime, chorus girls, Western cinemas and the use of cavalry in modern warfare, that in Prohibition days more game wardens than revenue agents were...
EPHRAIM Brown was back in Chog's Cove. Four-five years ago, he had shipped aboard the privateer Glimpse, he had taken leave of Sue. He recalls; "Wall, I got to go aboard now, got to be going. Take care o' yourself, Eph. I will; don't forget me Sue. I won't. Wanting to kiss her and afraid to do it." Four-five years was a long time: three had been spent on the Glimpse, and then Eph, and Roger, and Sam had wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said...
...attention. It is an illustration of the sort of thing which marks out Oliver LaFarge as a great novelist. It is an illustration not only of his dramatic restraint, but of his intellectual honesty and of his deep understanding as well. For, to anyone who knows New England, Eph and Sue are honest 'pictures, they embody all the characteristics and habits, all the simplicity, all the uncouth, rum-drinking, ruddy cheeked vigor which is the badge of your New England fisherman...