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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Plymouth, and the establishment of the colony there. Apropos of the landing, Mr. Deane gave an interesting sketch, how the tradition about Plymouth Rock was handed down. The tradition, it seems, first found its way into print in 1774 through the Old Colony Society of Plymouth. The society got the story from a centenarian who was then in the neighborhood. This man, in turn, got it from an intimate of his, a centenarian of the proceeding generation, and he being born in 1631, got it direct from the Fathers themselves...
...with anticipated pleasure and with zest. And this is just the spirit which our new assistant is trying to infuse into what, before have been to many irksome tasks. We never till now, realized Low necessary is an instructor in gymnasium work, and we only wonder how we have got along all this time without...
...might be hired; for our sanitary arrangements are so perfect here, that although I pay over $250 for my room the only way that I can get water is from two sinks, one up stairs and one down, and both smelling so that I am glad I haven't got one in my room. There are other gains in the distance for a photographic club after the room has been obtained. Such as a man to clean up and do dome of the fifty work. But enough of this. I will co-operate with any endeavor to get up such...
...picture while she was serving from the other. On developing the plate, I found the striker out with both hands on his knees, ready for the ball which was to come from an invisible server. Such accidents are common. I once tried to take a horse and sulky, but got only the horse's nose. It is just like shooting at birds on the wing; the novice is most likely to shoot ahead and so either misses the bird altogether or hits it in the head and kills it at once...
...notwithstanding all this we challenged them again to play this week; we had worked for the game and hated to give it up. In answer we learn today that as the college is just in the midst of semi-annual examinations the team could not be got together. (Query, does Yale close in March, or is the second half-year a three-quarters?) With this, all our hopes for a game are at an end. Our team has kept training to the last, laboring under the vain delusion that Yale would finally give up child's play. We have been...