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Yesterday the crews rowed under difficulties, the air being so cold on the river that the water froze to the oars. Both eights, however, did the customary practice, consisting of two long stretches of about a mile and a half each. Mr. Lehmann coached from the launch. He told the crews customarily to paddle the greater part of the distance and row hard for a short stretch at the finish...
...foot ball game between Yale and the "Graduates" was played at New Haven on Wednesday afternoon under very much the same condition of weather as existed in Cambridge on the same day. The ground was not quite so thickly covered with snow, but the rain froze in falling during the game. these bad conditions made the game a poor exhibition of foot ball. The graduates did not turn up in full force, only eight being present, seven Yale and one Princeton man. Their eleven were filled up with two Yale freshmen and a former '86 Yale man. Several members...
Nicknames - "Porkapolis," "Heliogapolis," "Old Bat," "Battery," "Asia Minor," "Phinio," "Satellite," "Lill M. Froze-to-death," "Purchase...
...easy to get along with. The next man was pitched out, and the third scraped the airy vault of heaven with what seemed to every one a home run; but little they recked of the noble L. F., the heroic Blister; this gallant man, with measured step and song, froze to the sphere with one hand while running backward, and the Hod-lifters retired with no runs...
...Freshmen were beginning to call "More," when a sight met their eyes that froze their very marrow with terror. Following the eyes of the Clown towards the centre of the theatre, they beheld coming down the middle aisle, spectacled and grim, Xanthippe. With a bound she cleared the rope surrounding the ring, and striding up to her no longer jocund spouse, regarded him with a contemptuous stare. Cebes, muttering something about an engagement elsewhere, retired from the ring, leaving the unfortunate Clown to his fate. Socrates raised his hand with a deprecatory gesture, murmuring, "Really, my dear...