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...Indian Yearlings saw the high-water mark in penalties. A nice round twenty were handed out, evenly divided between the sextets. A fellow named Conant was outstandingly tough for the Green, while Eli right defenseman Kite was no angel. The referee saw fit to banish this lad five times, one of them on a major charge...
...born, the son of many generations of American farmers, on cleared land in the foothills of the Cumberlands, 100 miles from the nearest railroad. As a lad he rafted his father's logs 200 miles down the Cumberland River to market...
...than ever moved by the same emotions, instincts and interests as the single individual. It is conceivable that a dictator awakening one morning with a bellyache might throw his country into a war which might never have happened if he had taken a cathartic the night before." As a lad, Webb Miller was inordinately impressed with the works of Henry David Thoreau, found in that gentle naturalist's Walden a blueprint for human peace & happiness. As a man, though he still carries a tattered copy of Walden wherever he goes, Webb Miller rounds off his memoirs by sombrely remarking...
...polling was taken in great seriousness, as story after story was received about a girl shivering in the cold or rain until a "second" arrived. Many a lad told such hard luck stories as not being able to take piano lessons from a female teacher in his own abode or not being able to receive furniture from a spinster aunt who had driven many miles to bequeath it. A large number of people expressed their willingness to abide by stringent parietal rules if only the various house common rooms be open to females without registration...
When Laurence Housman (Victoria Regina) published his first book of poems in 1895, his older brother Alfred wrote him: "I had far far rather have my poems mistaken as yours, than your poems mistaken as mine." In his will the solitary author of A Shropshire Lad gave his brother permission "to publish any poems which appear to him to be completed and to be not inferior to the average of my published poems." Last week Laurence offered a selection of 48 lyrics which he found among his distinguished brother's papers, in a volume that...