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...foremost figure skater is a nationally known amateur from St. Paul, Minn. The record of her gay blades includes two summers of appearances in St. Paul's ice shows and dizzying twirls in more benefits and revues than she can name off-hand. Last winter she took a brief fling at monarchy as Queen of the snow and ice carnival at Carleton College, in, Northfield, Minn...
...good case. They had sailed the Antarctic seas since 1773, whaled there, set up a formal government for part of the disputed area in 1908, and had organized more than half the expeditions ever sent into the Antarctic. Said the Manchester Guardian confidently: "Let Latin American oratory have its fling and the penguins applaud. It should be enough for us to put our case diplomatically...
...wrote poetry for his beautiful neighbor, Fraulein Jenny von Westphalen, who, whenever she read one of his poems, "burst into tears of joy and melancholy." Sample: "If we can but weld our souls together, then with contempt I shall fling my glove in the world's face; then I, a creator, shall stride through the wreckage...
Freshman and jayvee hockey and jayvee basketball go on a final pre-exam fling today on their home playing areas. The Yardling sextet tackles the Brown Cubs while the jayvees meet Newton High and the junior varsity takes on the Tufts Freshmen...
...Hasty Pudding Club presented its first public performance, dramatics began to bore from within the College. Although the Pudding had its troubles with University Hall, the administration stepped aside without intense prodding, graciously acknowledging the coming of new times. And by 1881, the College itself was taking a fling with the dramatic arts...