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...vanished." The scene set, Hergesheimer silhouettes against it nine representative actors: ". . . the eloquent Mr. Yancey; Varina Howell who loved Jefferson Davis all her life; Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard, cast in an obligation of honor dark and ringing like bronze; Albert Sidney Johnston in the loneliness of early Texas; Captain Maffitt driving precarious steamboats, heavy with cotton, and priceless with morphia and powder and gold, into the blockaded night; Nathan Forrest charging at the head of his troops, with his great sabre ground to a razor edge; Belle Boyd, who was more dangerous, more destructive, than canister or solid shot...
Skull and Bones-D. H. Day, Indianapolis, Ind.; T. S. Maffitt, St. Louis, Mo.; S. D. Ames, Providence, R. I.; M. T. Adams, Amherst, Mass.; C. F. Sweet, Grand Rapids, Mich.; R. A. Callahan, Chicago, Ill.; W. F. Whitehouse, New York City; H. T. Bowles, New York City; A. G. Vanderbilt, New York City; James Brown, Chicago, Ill.; Ord Preston, Englewood, N. J.; J. M. Magee, Pittsburg, Pa.; Fred H. Brooke, Birdsboro, Pa.; C. N. Wells, Scranton, Pa.; W. E. S. Griswold, Erie...
...gymnasium advisory committee has been formed at Yale consisting of N. H. Swayne, manager of the 'varsity ball nine: W. B. Maffitt, manager of the eleven; W. B. Wade, president of the Track Athletic Association; Derby Rogers of the navy, L. S. Stillman of the Yale News and Professor Richards, chairman. This committee will act as a general board of directors of the new gymnasium...
...suggestions made at last week's session were adopted. Only undergraduates may hereafter play on the college football teams, and while the University of Pennsylvania does not like the move it is hardly probable that the Pennsylvania men will retire from the association. The delegates present were: A. Maffitt and Vance C. McCormick, of Yale; George C. Fraser, J. McN. Thompson and Philip King, of Princeton; A. Thorndike and W. Gordon, of Wesleyan; John C. Bell, of the Advisory Board; Mr. Thornton and the newly elected captain of the eleven were present to look after the interests of the University...
...sale of tickets for the Yale - Princeton game at New Haven after a crowd had stood in line for eight hours, Maffitt, manager of the team, announced that the sale would be indefinitely postponed...