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...most important, he brings a deep respect for his opponent which Sullivan never held for Corbett. Dempsey faces him with startling speed, uncanny skill and a jab in either hand that bites like a hatchet. He is probably not the fighter of four years ago that launched Willard into a pugilistic eternity from which he recently endeavored to return. His timing and his eye have dulled a trifle...
...sign myself in the old-time Incas that my father taught me in the ancient way with a hatchet and a slab of marble. He was an able scholar...
...destroy, it needs a depository, and naturally this much-slandered edifice will dutifully continue serving this purpose. The odium that attaches to it will, of course, wear off in time, and eventually the museum may be expected to gain the attention it righteously deserves. The sooner the artistic hatchet is buried the better...
Germany drinks beer; Russia vodka; France absinthe; England ale. The obvious moral is--If you seek peace and prosperity eschew the demon rum! I do not seek to emulate Mrs. Nation--the eminently illustrious "Hatchet Carrie," nor am I an embryo Anthony Comstock. Yet I believe in total abstinence for college men. However, the question of total abstinence is not necessary for the present discussion. It is an undisputed fact that to countenance Hogarthian over-drinking at smokers and dinners is to create an undesirable impression on the outside world and particularly in the minds of parents and boys...
...part we cannot see how the articles in question show a disposition to "bury the hatchet" or to "exhume it." We are sure the Harvard undergraduates all desire games with Priceton on the same basis as that which Harvard plays games with Amherst and Dartmouth. The New England rule prevented a Harvard-Princeton foot ball match, but we hope that before next spring some arrangements can be made for a series of Harvard. Princeton base ball games...